Bernadette Brennan
speaker
419 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2018
last heard 29 May
Bernadette Brennan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I'll take that.
And I hear that she's just won the Wyndham Campbell Prize.
Oh, I could never go past either Kim Scott's Benung, From the Heart, 2000, or 1999, I think that might have been published.
It won the Miles Franklin or shared it with Drylands with Thea Astley for 2000.
And I can never go past Alexis Wright's Carpentaria.
If you really wanted two books that should be read by, you know, every Australian, I'd say those two.
Oh, well, if you want to go old, I think Furphy's Such Is Life, published in 1901, is unbeatable.
It's hilarious.
It's brilliant.
It's an Australian classic that should never go out of print and should hopefully be read by Australians for generations.
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Well, Bernadette, let's sketch out some of that great story for people who haven't read the book.
There are two Australian sisters, Caro and Grace Bell.
They travel to England with their terrible half-sister, Dora.
Their parents have died in a ferry accident in Sydney, and we meet some of the people who become important to them.
Just on the thing about rereading, we've actually had contact from a lot of listeners on this book.
And here's one from Les from Dandenong North.
He wrote to say, I read this work of surpassing craft and knowledge of human nature every few years, about 15 times now.
The transit of Venus makes my heart pound and tears come to my eyes immediately.
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