A review by alanfederman
My Brilliant Career & My Career Goes Bung by Miles Franklin

3.0

This book had been hailed as a must-read Australian book, so it seemed required reading for my trip. The depictions of the challenges of early Australian rural life were excellent - the heat, the financial struggles, and the harshness of the geography. The narrator at times annoyed me with her self-pity, but after some additional reflection, her honesty is refreshing and only a teenager when she wrote this, she is amazingly self-aware and I would highly recommend this book to anyone wanting to learn more about late 18th century Australia or the challenges of being an adolescent. Or both.