Description
The first novel written about the enigmatic literary legend
“A pure delight.”–Elle
“Lapierre’s best novel so far.”–Le Nouvel Obs
Australia, 1901. Miles Franklin, the young daughter of poor bush farmers, manages to publish her first novel against all odds. A work of remarkable boldness and passion, it becomes an immense success in the English-speaking world. While she strives to maintain her anonymity under a male pseudonym, her identity is revealed and she is exposed to the misogynistic prejudices of her time.
Restless, indomitable, and unwilling to be silenced, Miles reinvents herself again and again across three continents. In Sydney, she pens a searing exposé of working women’s lives. In America, she throws herself into the suffrage movement. She volunteers with the Serbian Red Cross during the First World War, then joins the radical circles of 1920s Europe, sparring with critics and mingling with writers and artists.
She forges countless friendships, experiences magnificent loves, and, through it all, nurtures her passion for writing and her ambition for literary success.
Guided by her generosity and sense of humor, Miles eventually returns to Australia, where she will deliver a final blow to the critics who proclaimed that her wit and her genius had dried up.
Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Alexandra Lapierre,Tina Kover Kover (Translator)
Published: 06/02/2026
Publisher: Europa Editions
ISBN: 9798889661887
Pages: 496
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 1.60″ H x 8.20″ L x 5.20″ W
About the Author
Lapierre, Alexandra: – Alexandra Lapierre is a bestselling French novelist, short story writer, and biographer. She graduated from Sorbonne University and the University of Southern California. Among her works that bring back to life great women and characters neglected by history is the international bestseller Artemisia (Vintage, 2012). Her books have been published in more than twenty countries.
Kover, Tina Kover: – Tina Kover is a literary translator whose works include The Black City by George Sand, and Adelaïde Bon’s The Little Girl on the Ice Floe. For Europa she translated Disoriental by Négar Djavadi, The Postcard and Gabriële by Anne Berest, and Older Brother by Mahir Guven. She lives in Durham.
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