Tony Birch tackles the culture of silence around family violence in 'Women & Children'

Author Tony Birch’s latest novel 'Women & Children' is an exploration of family dynamics and domestic violence in working class Melbourne in the 1960s. Told through the eyes of eleven-year-old Joe Cluny, the story is a complex and sensitive picture of a family struggling within a culture of inertia and silence.

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