Paddy O'Reilly
Autor(a) de The Fine Colour of Rust
About the Author
Obras de Paddy O'Reilly
Associated Works
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Australia
- Ocupação
- novelist
short-story writer
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 11
- Also by
- 5
- Membros
- 168
- Popularidade
- #126,679
- Avaliação
- 3.9
- Resenhas
- 13
- ISBNs
- 39
When Lily meets Janks, she's a cashier at a supermarket and he's an addict. With a combination of wavering determination and luck, Janks gets a scarce place in rehab. When he's clean the couple make a fresh start. They move away from temptation from his 'mates', and he gets a dull job in a factory while she does cleaning because the flexible hours mean she can be home for Jewel. They live from payday to payday, just scraping by but determined that Jewel will have a different sort of life. They don't want her to be one of the working poor. They want her to have a career, and savings instead of debt.
Other Houses is a gritty novel about serious issues, but it's often playful. O'Reilly has fun depicting the kinds of houses that Lily and her friend Shannon clean, showing the financial and social gulf between those who are cleaners and those who can afford them.
They also clean the Horror House, the House of Doom, Lady Accountant, the Webber (with spiders), the Special Occasion House and the Portaloo.
The family is on the margins and the rent is a struggle, but now they live in gentrified Northcote. So when Jewelee, who is surely the nastiest teenager ever depicted in fiction, has a school trip to Greece, it triggers a desperate quest for the money to pay for it.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2022/04/03/other-houses-by-paddy-oreilly-and-a-shout-ou...… (mais)