The Road from Coorain | Jill Ker Conway | Someone has to tell the truth

The Road from Coorain | Jill Ker Conway | A Fascinating Autobiography

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The Road from Coorain

	The Road from Coorain Jill Ker Conway Vintage, 1990 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 46 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Someone has to tell the truth

She tells about life in the Australian outback with simplicity and truth. Her testimony about the disparity between women and men before ERA is essential to history. Anyone who says that she has been handed anything on a "silver platter" was not a woman trying to make it in the 1950s. Her stories from childhood are an inspiration, especially how she attempts to understand her parents, teaching us all how human it is to fall into despair and hopelessness, no matter how realistic our optimism, no matter how much integrity we think we have.

A Fascinating Autobiography

Jill Ker-Conway's childhood in rural Australia and mid-20th century Sydney was one of the best autobiographies I have read. As an Australian, it was wonderful for me to see so clearly how our historic ties with Britain shaped our nation and our psyches, both positively and negatively. But this is not just a book for Australians. Many of my American friends have thoroughly enjoyed this book too. Ker-Conway's writing is fluid and poetic and is a sheer pleasure to read.

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