Amy's Children: Text Classics

Author(s): Olga Masters

Classics

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town - and her three infant children - and try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing a home while she attends high school. And Amy falls in love with a married man... Enlivened with note-perfect observations of the everyday, wrenching in its portrayal of a young woman struggling to succeed yet often wilfully ignorant of her own children, Olga Masters' second and last novel is a triumph. At its centre is Amy, one of the great characters in Australian literature. This edition comes with an introduction by the novelist Eva Hornung.


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Olga Masters was born in Pambula, New South Wales, the second of eight children.  Her early life was characterised by the poverty of the depression era, her family moving around the South Coast region in search of work. Masters herself began working as a journalist at the age of 15 on the Cobargo Chronicle, a weekly newspaper serving the south coastal area between Bega and Moruya.


In 1937, at the age of 18 she moved to Sydney where she worked in office jobs and met Charles Masters, a teacher, whom she married in 1940. With him, she again travelled around country towns, including GraftonLismore and Urbenville, before returning to Sydney.  They had seven children.

General Fields

  • : 9781922147080
  • : The Text Publishing Company
  • : Text Publishing
  • : 0.205
  • : June 2013
  • : 200mm X 130mm X 18mm
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Olga Masters
  • : Paperback
  • : English
  • : 823.914