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In 2018, Bri Lee's brilliant young friend Damian was named a Rhodes Scholar, an apex of academic achievement. When she goes to visit him and takes a tour of Oxford and Rhodes House, she begins questioning her belief in a system she has previously revered, as she learns the truth behind what Virginia Woolf described almost a century earlier as the 'stream of gold and silver' that flows through elite institutions and dictates decisions about who deserves to be educated there.

You were either fit and trim or you weren't working hard enough. Your body was how you conveyed wealth and status to your peers, it was a personality trait, a symbol of goodness and values: an ethical ideal. In recent decades women have made momentous progress fighting the patriarchy, yet they are held to ever-stricter, more punishing physical standards. Self-worth still plummets, and eating disorders are more deadly for how easily they are dismissed.

Australien – ein Sexclub, ein Casino und ein Drogenumschlagpunkt getarnt als Farm - vier Brüder – zwei gebrochene Herzen und eine Frau, die keine Rettung erwartet. Vom Regen in die Traufe. So sah bisher der Lebensweg von Cleo aus, die nach mehreren Schicksalsschlägen bei Shawn, dem Kartellboss von Geraldton, landet. Ohne das Gefühl der Hoffnung fristet sie ihr Leben an seiner Seite. Unerwartet steht Kian, einer von Shawns Geschäftspartnern, in dessen Haus. Er fühlt sich von Shawn betrogen und will die Sache klären.