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Unashamedly high-spirited and romantic COMPANY A splendidly
vivid display ... carrying the reader by force of its narrative and
its sharply detailed, entirely convincing voice THE TIMES
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First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the
live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents'' outback
farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical
burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for a more refined, aesthetic
lifestyle -- to read, to think, to sing -- but most of all to do
great things. Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to
live on her grandmother''s gracious property, she falls under the
eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds
herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and
her own plans for a ''brilliant career''.
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Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin 1879-1954 was born into a
pioneering family settled in New South Wales. Between 1918 and 1933
she lived in London, and in 1933 she returned to Australia where
she spent the rest of her life.
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