The novel is set in the small town of Noonoon at a time when Australian women have just been granted the right to vote.
Grandma Clay runs a boarding house in the town and living with her are her granddaughter Dawn and grandson Andrew.
Against the backdrop of the election campaign the story follows the development of a love affair between Dawn and a local athlete, Ernest Breslow.
Those who prefer to do so may classify the book as fiction, but for us it has too much acute realism to pass as mere make-believe.
"[1] On the other hand a reviewer in The Queenslander was not impressed with the book at all: "The young author of "My Brilliant Career" has written a big story with much that is good in it and much that is worthless.