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Other Houses
Other Houses | Paddy O'Reilly
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Lauredhel
Other Houses | Paddy O'Reilly
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This is what I wanted Boy Swallows Universe to be. It's “gritty“ Aus fiction from a woman's PoV. MC and her husband met when she was a supermarket cashier; he got clean & together they struggled their way to a different environment to try to get her daughter away from bad influences. MC now cleans houses of the well-off (she describes this in, well, not “loving“ detail, but detail); he has been dragged back into a dangerous situation due to debt.

Lauredhel Other Houses really hammers home the reality of poverty and the near impossibility of working your way out of it.

And yeah, they don't all always make good decisions, but who does?

On my hook: cotton ripple pullover. The yarn is made from recycled denim jeans.
2y
FlowerFairy Those colors and your work are both absolutely lovely! 2y
Lauredhel @FlowerFairy thanks, I like the colours too! 2y
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LapReader
Other Houses | Paddy O'Reilly
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First book purchase at #SFW. Never heard of the author before the the lecture I went to as it included Toni Jordan, who I bought the ticket to see. Paddy got me to buy her book with one sentence and let me take her picture. She said my name is spelt unusually like hers. Shame about the cold but I did just have a nice hot cheese pie and glass of Shiraz for lunch. I will borrow a jacket to wear tomorrow. Now off to fill in time at the book shop.

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Lauredhel
Other Houses | Paddy O'Reilly
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Who knew there was a new Paddy O'Reilly? Me! I knew!

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