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Ten hail marys : a memoir / Kate Howarth.

By: Publication details: St Lucia, Qld. : University of Queensland Press, 2010.Description: xii, 303 p. : ports. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780702237706 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.89915 22
LOC classification:
  • HV700.5 .H68 2010
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's homepage: http://www.uqp.com.au.
Summary: An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigenous relatives, she is abandoned by her mother then her grandmother.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book Jessie Street National Women's Library 305.89915 HOW (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available for reference in the library 66331

"For a long time in Australia unmarried mothers were expected to give up their babies for adoption. Kate Howarth fought to keep her son - and won." Frontcover.

Illustrations on endpapers.

An extraordinary story of courage and survival in the tradition of Angela's Ashes. Ten Hail Marys follows the first seventeen years of Kate Howarth's life in Sydney and country New South Wales. Raised by various Indigenous relatives, she is abandoned by her mother then her grandmother.

Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at the publisher's homepage: http://www.uqp.com.au.

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Mode of access: Internet. Available at the publisher's homepage: http://www.uqp.com.au.

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