My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin
“She wasn't born to be a wife; she was born to be herself.”
Trapped in the dusty, demanding landscape of rural New South Wales, the fiery Sybylla Melvyn refuses to settle for the life of a dutiful 19th-century wife. This classic Australian tale follows a headstrong heroine who risks everything to choose her own path of creative freedom over a secure but soul-crushing marriage.
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