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1 online resource |
| Summary |
A brave new novel that sensitively explores one woman's experience of sexual violence and the silencing of those who feel compelled to speak out.What happens when a young woman enters a city apartment early morning, with two footballers? Jordi Spence is sixteen years old and lives in outer Melbourne. By daybreak, her world has shifted. Max Carlisle, a troubled AFL star, can't stop what comes next. And Ruby, a single woman from the apartment block, is left with questions when she sees Jordi leave.In this remarkable novel, Rachel Matthews captures the characters of Jordi and her family, the players, and the often loveable inhabitants of a big city with a deceptive lightness of touch that seduces the reader. Siren reveals the often unnoticed life of a city while simultaneously drawing us deep into a dark and troubling world. What happens has an unexpected effect on all those who are both directly and indirectly involved.The result is a powerful and haunting novel about cultural stereotypes and expectations, love, loneliness, family and our struggle to connect. In so many ways, Matthews subtly sounds the siren on sexual violence and its prevalence in our culture. |
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Title detail screen (OverDrive, viewed August, 29, 2017). |
| Contents |
""Cover Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Dedication""; ""Chapter 1""; ""Chapter 2""; ""Chapter 3""; ""Chapter 4""; ""Chapter 5""; ""Chapter 6""; ""Chapter 7""; ""Chapter 8""; ""Chapter 9""; ""Chapter 10""; ""Chapter 11""; ""Chapter 12""; ""Chapter 13""; ""Chapter 14""; ""Chapter 15""; ""Chapter 16""; ""Chapter 17""; ""Chapter 18""; ""Chapter 19""; ""Chapter 20""; ""Chapter 21""; ""Chapter 22""; ""Chapter 23""; ""Chapter 24""; ""Chapter 25""; ""Chapter 26""; ""Chapter 27""; ""Chapter 28""; ""Chapter 29""; ""Chapter 30""; ""Chapter 31""; ""Chapter 32""; ""Chapter 33"" |
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""Chapter 34""""Chapter 35""; ""Chapter 36""; ""Chapter 37""; ""Chapter 38"" |
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Teenage girls -- Fiction.
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Sexual abuse victims -- Fiction.
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Stigma (Social psychology) -- Fiction.
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Families -- Fiction.
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Athletes -- Fiction.
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Australian fiction.
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Melbourne (Vic.) -- Fiction.
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Athletes. (OCoLC)fst00820027
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Australian fiction. (OCoLC)fst00821424
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Sexual abuse victims. (OCoLC)fst01114783
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Stigma (Social psychology) (OCoLC)fst01133365
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Teenage girls. (OCoLC)fst01145412
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Victoria -- Melbourne.
(OCoLC)fst01204736
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FICTION / General.
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Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| ISBN |
9780995359598 (electronic bk.) |
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0995359598 (electronic bk.) |
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