A warm, gritty novel set in Australia around World War II about a young mother who loves her children but also needs to earn money and have a life of her own.

Amy was married when she was seventeen. She was three months pregnant. Four years later her husband left her and the three daughters she had borne. When she returned to her parents, her mother thought she still looked no older than her four-year-old daughter. Leaving the girls in her mother’s care, Amy went to Sydney, found a job, and slowly made a life for herself. She thought about her girls and felt their loss, but she was not prepared for first one and then another of them to join her in Sydney so they could attend high school. The tense dynamics between the mother and the daughters are the heart of this excellent story. So is the community of working-class women in which Amy is embedded.
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Amy’s Children is said perhaps to be Olga Master’s finest work, and I enjoyed it very much. It’s not experimental writing: Amy’s Children is a tale of an ordinary woman living a life that seems extraordinary in this day and age. For more, see
http://anzlitlovers.wordpress.com/2009/07/19/amys-children-by-olga-masters/ ( )

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