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Issue Details: First known date: 2022... 2022 Orphan Rock
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'Orphan Rock is a complex and richly detailed story of secrets and heartbreak that will take you from the back streets of Sydney's slums to the wide avenues of the City of Lights.

'The late 1800s was a time when women were meant to know their place. But when Bessie starts to work for Louisa Lawson at The Dawn, she comes to realise there's more to a woman's place than servitude to a husband.

'Years later her daughter Kathleen flees to Paris to escape a secret she cannot accept. But World War One intervenes, exposing her to both the best and the worst of humanity.

'Masterful and epic, this book is both a splendid evocation of early Sydney, and a truly powerful story about how women and minorities fought against being silenced.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Notes

  • Author's note:

    for Katie

    &

    for Leah

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Yarraville, Footscray - Maribyrnong area, Melbourne - West, Melbourne, Victoria,: Transit Lounge , 2022 .
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      Extent: 496p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published March 2022.
      ISBN: 9781925760873

Works about this Work

Book Review : Orphan Rock, Dominique Wilson Erich Mayer , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2022;

— Review of Orphan Rock Dominique Wilson , 2022 single work novel

'A novel that weaves the major events of the times into the life stories of its characters'

Bess and Kathleen : Dominique Wilson’s New Novel Susan Sheridan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 26)

— Review of Orphan Rock Dominique Wilson , 2022 single work novel

'Dominique Wilson’s new novel is another foray into the field of historical fiction. Her two previous novels deal with the pain of living through periods of civil strife and migration, and cover long periods of time and several cultures: The Yellow Papers (2014) is set in China and Australia from the 1870s to the 1970s, while That Devil’s Madness (2016) moves from Paris to Algiers to Australia and back from the 1890s to 1970s.' (Introduction)

Bess and Kathleen : Dominique Wilson’s New Novel Susan Sheridan , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , April no. 441 2022; (p. 26)

— Review of Orphan Rock Dominique Wilson , 2022 single work novel

'Dominique Wilson’s new novel is another foray into the field of historical fiction. Her two previous novels deal with the pain of living through periods of civil strife and migration, and cover long periods of time and several cultures: The Yellow Papers (2014) is set in China and Australia from the 1870s to the 1970s, while That Devil’s Madness (2016) moves from Paris to Algiers to Australia and back from the 1890s to 1970s.' (Introduction)

Book Review : Orphan Rock, Dominique Wilson Erich Mayer , 2022 single work review
— Appears in: ArtsHub , March 2022;

— Review of Orphan Rock Dominique Wilson , 2022 single work novel

'A novel that weaves the major events of the times into the life stories of its characters'

Last amended 20 Jul 2022 12:38:13
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  • Sydney, New South Wales,
  • Paris,
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    France,
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    Western Europe, Europe,
  • 1890s
  • 1914
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