TY  - BOOK
AU  - O'Connor, Mary-Anne,
TI  - Sisters of freedom
SN  - 9781489261557
U1  - A823.4 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Sydney, N.S.W. : 
PB  - HQ Fiction, 
KW  - Sisters
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Women's rights
KW  - Australia
KW  - History
KW  - 1901-1914
KW  - Australian fiction
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Historical fiction
KW  - fast
KW  - local
N2  - "Sydney, Christmas, 1901. Federation has been achieved but Australian women are yet to gain the right to vote in their new nation's elections and have a say in the laws that govern them. Bolshy, boisterous Frankie Merriweather is a fervent advocate for women's rights, determined to dedicate herself to the cause, never marrying or becoming a mother. She can't understand her artistic sister Ivy, who wants a life of ease and beauty with her soon-to-be fiance, law student Patrick Earle. Meanwhile, their married sister Aggie volunteers in an orphanage, decrying the inequality of Australia's social classes ... and longing to hold a baby in her arms. When an accident takes Ivy, wounded and ill, into the violent and lawless zone of the Hawkesbury River, a year of change begins. Ivy's burgeoning friendship with her saviour Riley Logan, a smuggler, and his sister, the poverty-stricken but valiant Fiona, will alter the lives of all three women forever."--Publisher
ER  -