The Strong Dress

Name: The Strong Dress
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781922571649
Price: 32.95 NZD
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By Meg Vertigan

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The Strong Dress by Meg Vertigan is a compelling general fiction work that delves into themes of identity and transformation. The story follows the protagonist's journey from a constrained and predictable life into one of self-discovery and empowerment. Through this transformative path, readers witness the character's evolution and the challenges faced along the way.
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The Strong Dress

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It is 1977 and Kate is a seventeen-year-old HSC student from Sydney's North Shore. She has dreams of becoming the next Ita Buttrose and editing Cleo. Yet, while the 1970s was the time of free love and peace, this movement has not yet reached Kate's suburban home in Beecroft.

Kate's carefree behaviour leads her parents to seek the advice of a maverick Sydney psychiatrist, Dr Jack Grafton. She is subjected to Slumber Therapy, where she is given a cocktail of drugs that leave her confused about what is real.

Dr Grafton claimed that Slumber Therapy could cure all mental illness, from schizophrenia to not getting along with your parents. Yet, after multiple patient deaths and their investigation, he commits suicide. His colleague, a fellow unnamed psychiatrist, tells the story of his talented and erratic friend.

The Strong Dress is a tragic dance of power, gender, and scientific over-confidence in 1970s suburban Australia.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922571649

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 March 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 290

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Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction Meg Vertigan

About the Author

Meg Vertigan started her working life at 16, moving from her parent's home in Morwell where she lived in the lee of the open cut coal mines, to inner city Melbourne where she worked as a design room assistant. She worked in bars and factories before single motherhood motivated her to become a teacher. She has since taught people from around the world as well as teaching in Cambodia and dragging her children across the world. She lives on the Central Coast of NSW and teaches Foundation Studies and Creative Writing at the University of Newcastle.