{"product_id":"ducks-on-the-pond","title":"Ducks on the Pond","description":"\u003cp\u003e‘Ducks on the pond!’ a shearer called out if he saw a woman approach or enter that exclusively male domain, the shearing shed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe call was a signal to all the shearers to stop work or at least refrain from swearing until the woman had gone.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDucks on the Pond is the unflinching personal story of a woman who challenged the world she was given.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Summers grew up in a post-war Australia where Catholic schoolgirls learned their only options were to be a mum or a nun - or to end up on the shelf. In this startlingly frank account, she tells the story of a suburban childhood marred by her father's rejection, which forced her to strike out on her own at an early age.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was to be a long journey through unfamiliar cities and a succession of low-paid typically female jobs for this gawky, unconfident convent girl before she emerged as a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement, an award-winning journalist and ultimately a key adviser to prime ministers Bob Hawke and Paul Keating.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnne Summers writes as someone who has never accepted other people's plans for her life, and tells with wit and wry humour a story of success and fulfilment achieved against considerable odds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anne Summers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45745624514729,"sku":"9780670882625","price":14.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0424\/9518\/0962\/files\/9780670882625.jpg?v=1746070832","url":"https:\/\/roseyravelstonbooks.com.au\/products\/ducks-on-the-pond","provider":"RoseyRavelston Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}