My Brilliant Sister by Amy Brown

From her autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career made her famous, Stella Miles Franklin lived a trailblazing bohemian life. Not so her beloved sister Linda, who accepted the path of marriage, motherhood, domesticity, and died at twenty-five.

In her own extraordinary, genre-bending novel, Amy Brown rescues Linda from obscurity, placing her story alongside two modern counterparts: a mother who has put her writing on hold while she works and raises her daughter; and a singer-songwriter who has sacrificed everything for stardom and is now unravelling, isolated by the sea. In the middle of these two lives is the riposte Linda might have written to her sister: an irresistible, note-perfect alternative version of My Brilliant Career.

My Brilliant SIster is both an utterly convincing, witty portrait of Miles and Linda Franklin and an innovative, illuminating exploration of the impossible balance women are still compelled to strike between their work, their families and their souls.

Genres: Historical Fiction - Australia - Literary Fiction - Feminism - Contemporary - New Zealand/Australian Author