![]() Her father, Dick, is determined to successfully run a 1000-acre sheep farm. This study guide uses the 2020 independently published paperback edition.Īt the age of nine, Sybylla Melvyn moves with her family to ‘Possum Gully, a remote rural town in New South Wales, Australia. ![]() That rediscovery led to an acclaimed 1979 film adaptation directed by Gillian Armstrong, which launched the careers of both Judy Davis and Sam Neill.Īlthough marketed as a Young Adult novel, the book explores difficult questions about a woman’s identity in a patriarchal culture the power of a young girl’s dreams against her responsibilities to her family the difficult struggle to find love not driven by sex and the power of art, specifically literature and music, to lift and inspire. ![]() Given its first-person narrator unapologetically advocating for her independence, the novel was rediscovered two decades after Franklin’s death and embraced as an early expression of feminism. ![]()
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