"Margot detests shopping malls. Any distraction is welcome,
and the woman who has chained herself to the escalator, shouting about the
perils of consumerism, is certainly that. She recognises Dot immediately - from
their time campaigning for women's rights, and further back still, to the heyday
of the Sydney Push when Margot married Laurence. Dot is in despair at the
abandonment of the sisterhood, at the idea of pole dancing as empowerment and
the sight of five year-olds with false eyelashes and padded bras. She's still a
fierce campaigner, but these days she isn't sure where to direct her rage.
Margot's despair is quieter; a haunting resentment that her youthful ambitions
have always been shelved to attend to the needs of others. And as the two women
turn to the past for solutions for the future, Margot's family is in crisis.
Laurence sets off on a journey in a bid to repress his grief, daughter Lexie
loses the job that has been her life for twenty years, and her younger sister
Emma hides her pain with shopping binges that plunge her into debt. Liz Byrski
assembles a fallible cast of characters who are asking the questions we ask
ourselves. What does it mean to grow older? Are we brave enough to free
ourselves from the pressure to stay young? And is there ever a stage in life
when we can just be ourselves?"
Read by Robyn S.
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