{"product_id":"my-brilliant-sister-by-amy-brown-9781761424359","title":"My Brilliant Sister","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhile Stella Miles Franklin took on the world, her beloved sister Linda led a short, domestic life as a wife, mother, and sister. In a remarkable, genre-bending debut novel, Amy Brown thrillingly reimagines those two lives – and her own – to explore and explode the contradictions embedded in brilliant careers and a woman’s place in the world. \u003ci\u003eSliding Doors\u003c\/i\u003e meets \u003ci\u003eWifedom\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStella Miles Franklin’s autobiographical novel \u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Career\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNot 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 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 who has sacrificed everything for a career, now forcibly put on hold. Binding the two is the novella that Linda might have written to her sister Stella – a brilliant alternative vision of \u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Career\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eInnovative and involving, \u003ci\u003eMy Brilliant Sister\u003c\/i\u003e is an utterly convincing (and hilarious) portrait of Miles Franklin and a moving, nuanced exploration of the balance women still have to strike between careers and family lives. It gives a fresh take on one of Australia’s most celebrated writers and an insight into life now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Arotahi Agency","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46671023833324,"sku":"9781761424359","price":35.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3544743482815.jpg?v=1752797178","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/my-brilliant-sister-by-amy-brown-9781761424359","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}