Description
In late-19th-century Australia, Sybylla Melvyn grows up in a rural world shaped by hardship and expectation, yet she refuses to let circumstance define her future. Determined to pursue a life in the arts—especially writing—she wrestles with the pressures of family duty, limited opportunity, and the roles available to women. As her ambitions collide with the realities of love, work, and survival, Sybylla’s voice becomes both a shield and a compass, carrying the reader through a coming-of-age journey marked by resilience and self-invention. With its sharp wit and clear-eyed realism, the novel explores themes of gender, class, creative aspiration, and the cost of refusing to be “placed,” establishing Miles Franklin’s enduring significance as a defining storyteller of Australian life.
Available Editions
paperback
Lester & Orpen Dennys
Published Jan 1, 1981
232 pages
ISBN: 0919630197
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First Published
1965
Language
eng
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