David Hunt

And even just...

talking and putting it into words I started crying in this interview and then actually she started crying and I think we have just a little bit of that here's what she said about what she was thinking about when she was writing that scene um thinking about my own grandfather dying I think

Yes.

Yeah, I found it deeply comforting, deeply satisfying that there was an answer.

There was a presence and there was a continuum.

Yeah, I think the nadir must come just before that because that does, I agree with you, we do feel ascendant there.

Oh, well, let's get on to that then, Hank.

You're listening to The Book Club on ABC Radio National with me, Cassie McCullough, and Kate Evans, as always.

And today our guests are historians David Hunt and Maggie McKellar, who I assume is no relation to Dorothea.

I'll have to ask her.

Maggie?

Oh, really?

Are you serious?

Wow, that's amazing.

I'm glad I asked.

Yeah, your insurance policy just went up.

Well, that is fascinating to know.

We have just been talking about Tara June Winch's The Yield, which won this year's Miles Franklin Literary Award.

And now we're turning to the book that made the woman herself famous, and that is My Brilliant Career.

by Miles Franklin, who then bequeathed the award with the proceeds of her life's work.