Paperbark Book Club: April Session with Amy Brown
Wed, 24 Apr
|Six Degrees
Time & Location
24 Apr 2024, 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Six Degrees, 70 Stirling Terrace, Albany WA 6330, Australia
About the event
Join Paperbark Merchants in-conversation with Amy Brown (via zoom) to discuss her debut novel, My Brilliant Sister.
Stella Miles Franklin’s autobiographical novel My Brilliant Career launched one of the most famous names in Australian letters. Funny, bold, often biting about its characters, the novel and its young author had a lot in common. Miles went on to live a large, fiercely independent and bohemian life of travel, art and freedom.
Not so her beloved sister Linda. Quiet, contained, conventional, Linda was an inversion of Stella. A family peacemaker who married the man Stella would not, bore a son and died of pneumonia at 25.
In this reflective, witty and revealing novel, Amy Brown rescues Linda, setting her in counterpoint with Stella, and with the lives of two contemporary women: Ida, a writer whose writing life is on hold as she teaches and raises her young daughter; and Stella, a singer-songwriter…