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The last thing eighteen-year-old Wilhelmina "Willa" MacCarthy wants is to be a nun. It's 1936, and as the only daughter amongst four sons, her Irish–Catholic family is counting on her to take her vows-but Willa's found another calling. Each day she sneaks away to help Doctor Katherine Winston in her medical clinic in San Francisco's Richmond District.
Keeping secrets from her family only becomes more complicated when Willa agrees to help the doctor...
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Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The best new Australian crime novel since Peter Temple's The Broken ShoreWhen a teenage boy is killed in a drive-by shooting, the events that unfold rock the lives of the migrant families of Cringila. School friends Jimmy and Piggy have witnessed the violent crime, but need to protect their fledgling drug business.After seasoned police detective Gordon Winter is assigned the murder case, his investigations uncover more than one death and an entrenched...
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