| Record Number |
850952 |
| ISBN |
9781867532958 |
| Author |
Dettman, Joy author. |
| Title |
The hope flower [sound recording] / Joy Dettman ; read by Deidre Rubenstein. |
| Edition |
MP3 edition ; Unabridged. |
| Publisher/Date |
Tullamarine, Victoria : Bolinda Audio, [2021] |
| Pagination etc. |
1 audio disc (MP3 CD) (15 hr., 25 min.) : digital, stereo ; 12 cm ; in container. |
| Performer note |
Read by Deidre Rubenstein. |
| Summary Note |
Lori Smyth-Owen isn't your average teenager, as you'd expect from the only girl in a family of 12. Or they were a family, until their father took his own life to escape his bed-bound wife, too obese to leave her room. But for Lori and the remaining brothers, there is no escape from their volatile, mentally unstable mother. They raise themselves away from the gaze of the authorities, realising that though abandoned, they are now in charge. They can control everything, including their mother's food intake. In time, their mother emerges, after losing two-thirds of her body weight. But does she bring with her the seed of hope for a better future, or will all hell break loose? |
| Subject |
Brothers and sisters -- Fiction |
| Eating disorders -- Fiction |
| Obesity in women -- Fiction |
| Fathers -- Death -- Fiction |
| Suicide -- Fiction |
| Mental illness -- Fiction |
| Dysfunctional families -- Fiction |
| Domestic fiction. |
| Audiobooks. |
| Added Author |
Rubenstein, Deidre narrator. |
| Corporate Author |
Macmillan Audio (Firm) |
| Shelf Location |
CD F DETT |
