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'Set in Sydney in the first decade of the 1900s, Long Bay is based on the true case of a young female abortionist who was convicted of manslaughter and served out her sentence in the newly opened Long Bay Women’s Reformatory – the first of its kind in Australia. The woman, Rebecca Sinclair, was pregnant when she went to prison.
'Long Bay is a compelling fictional account of how Rebecca became involved in the burgeoning illegal abortion racket in Edwardian-era Sydney and how she was drawn into Donald Sinclair’s underworld. In unadorned prose, it examines the limiting effects of poverty, the mistakes we make for love, and the bond between mother and child.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
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Works about this Work
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Reimagining the Life of a Convict
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 August 2015; (p. 20)
— Review of Long Bay 2015 single work novel
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Reimagining the Life of a Convict
2015
single work
review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 8-9 August 2015; (p. 20)
— Review of Long Bay 2015 single work novel
Last amended 7 Sep 2022 12:34:07
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- Sydney, New South Wales,
- 1900-1910
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