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Legacy / Larissa Behrendt.

By: Publication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2009.Description: 282 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9780702237331 (pbk.)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 823.4 22
Summary: Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family lfe back in Sydney is defined by the complex relationship she has with her father Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths as his secret double life implodes. Can Simone accept her father for the man he is and forgive him for the man he's not?
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 823.4 BEH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library 66245

"A novel about fathers and daughters and how the past is always present"--Cover.

"The award winning author of Home"--Cover.

Simone Harlowe is young and clever, an Aboriginal lawyer straddling two lives and two cultures while studying at Harvard. Her family lfe back in Sydney is defined by the complex relationship she has with her father Tony, a prominent Aboriginal rights activist. As Simone juggles the challenges of a modern woman's life - career, family, friends and relationships - her father is confronting his own uncomfortable truths as his secret double life implodes. Can Simone accept her father for the man he is and forgive him for the man he's not?

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