‘Rosie’s father has connections haven’t you heard?’ Laura whispered.
Some of their classmates like Rosie and her family were wealthy while others like Jo and her mother lived week to week. The Yarraville well-off and Yarraville not-so-well off - though none of them were destitute. ‘There are millions of people in the world worse off than you,’ Mandy told Jo, especially when she wanted the things that Ash or Rosie had, the iphones, the apple laptops, the concert tickets ... In the past, the two classes would not have had much to do with each other, their paths rarely crossed. When Mandy was growing up, everyone she knew was working class. All the parents worked in factories or on the docks or for the railways. A few, shops. A couple were tradies.
Some of their classmates like Rosie and her family were wealthy while others like Jo and her mother lived week to week. The Yarraville well-off and Yarraville not-so-well off - though none of them were destitute. ‘There are millions of people in the world worse off than you,’ Mandy told Jo, especially when she wanted the things that Ash or Rosie had, the iphones, the apple laptops, the concert tickets ... In the past, the two classes would not have had much to do with each other, their paths rarely crossed. When Mandy was growing up, everyone she knew was working class. All the parents worked in factories or on the docks or for the railways. A few, shops. A couple were tradies.