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The book was really tough to read. Tough in the sense that Lilian Singer seems to be an unutterably sad creature and yet, she had the courage to pick her own path in life and stuck to it, consequences be damned. Despite some heartbreaks, however, the ending was remarkably hopeful and full of life. That alone pushed my rating up to 3.
I am not sure if I liked this book, I liked parts of it and not other parts, the characters were not really likeable. Lillian Singer is born in 1900, the year of Federation in Australia. The whole family is a bit strange, her mother is mentally fragile, her father takes to his bed for months and is not allowed to see a newspaper, her brother John is very introverted and probably is autistic or has Aspergers and Lillian has an extremely vivid imagination and has trouble making friends and loves f
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