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Summary:

Shayla is on a newspaper assignment when she returns to the public housing estate where she grew up and finds it demolished. The locals have been evicted, their homes erased, their stories too. Standing among the rubble of Rosemeadow, Shayla is assailed by her memories of living there. The bad secret Daddy asked her to keep. Mummy rekindling a dangerous romance. Making friends with 'the gutter kids'. Surrounded by poverty, confronted by domestic violence, Shayla found her escape in reading. Now it's time to tell the stories of Rosemeadow, including her own.Roseghetto is an unforgettable and moving coming-of-age story, an account of breaking the cycle of violence and poverty.

Author/Creator:

Jagger, Kirsty , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Roseghetto [by Jagger, K.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Roseghetto [by Jagger, K.] (Chicago : University of Queensland Press,c2023)

Subjects:

Family violence — Fiction

Public housing — Social aspects — Australia — Fiction

Substance abuse — Fiction

Sydney (N.S.W.) — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 30, 2023).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PR9619.4.J34 R67 2023eb

ISBNs:

9780702267222 (electronic book)
0702267228 (electronic book)
9780702267406 (electronic book)
0702267406 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1381094707

Other Control Numbers:

EBC7250627 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp305381502