The Road from Coorain – In the tradition of My Brilliant Career – a woman’s exquisitely clear-sighted memoir of growing up Australian –

“”This beautifully written narrative of Conway’s journey from a girlhood on an isolated sheep-farm in the grasslands of Australia to her departure for America (and eventually the presidency of Smith College) is both new and universal. If few of us have known an eight-year drought in New South Wales, many of us have felt the despair of an ambitious young woman facing a constrained female destiny. …” – Carolyn Heilbrun”