First published in 1901, this Australian classic recounts the live of 16-year-old Sybylla Melvyn. Trapped on her parents' outback farm, she simultaneously loves bush life and hates the physical burdens it imposes. For Sybylla longs for a more refined, aesthetic lifestyle -- to read, to think, to sing -- but most of all to do great things.
Suddenly her life is transformed. Whisked away to live on her grandmother's gracious property, she falls under the eye of the rich and handsome Harry Beecham. And soon she finds herself choosing between everything a conventional life offers and her own plans for a 'brilliant career'.
- ISBN10 1742699448
- ISBN13 9781742699448
- Publish Date 1 June 2012 (first published 14 July 1980)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Allen & Unwin
- Imprint A & U House of Books
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 260
- Language English