Redheap (1972)

Country

Australia

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How it feels

This series is set in a small Australian country town in the 1890s. It follows the lives of people struggling against the restrictive social rules and snobbery of the time.

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What happens

Redheap, also published as Every Mother's Son, is a 1930 novel by Norman Lindsay. It is a story of life in a country town in Victoria, Australia in the 1890s. Lindsay portrays real characters struggling with the social restrictions of the day. Snobbery and wowserism are dominant themes. In 1930 it became the first Australian novel to be banned in Australia. The novel forms the first part of a trilogy, together with Saturdee and Halfway to Anywhere. The novel was adapted for television in 1972. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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