The House That Was Eureka: Text Classics

The House That Was Eureka: Text Classics

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Author: Wheatley, Nadia
ISBN: 9781922147189
Publisher: Text Publishing
Year First Published: 2013
Pages: 288
Dimensions: 197mm x 128mm x 19mm
Format: Paperback / softback

Description
It's 1981 and Evie is sixteen. She has left school but can't find work, and her family has just moved into the run-down inner Sydney suburb of Newtown. Noel lives in the adjoining terrace house. He's fifteen, not taking school seriously and fed up with looking after his ancient bed-ridden grandmother.
As a friendship grows between Evie and Noel, the past is set back in motion, and the events of the 1930s Depression era begin to play out in the high-unemployment times of the early 1980s, and the house again is the centre of the Sydney anti-eviction campaign of 1931.
Based on historical fact, meticulously researched, The House That Was Eureka is a critically acclaimed novel about a history we all share.

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