Inventing Beatrice

A fascinating, finely wrought work, Inventing Beatrice is a sophisticated and engaging account of a person, her mother, and a bohemian period of Australian history.

When Beatrice Collins dies, her daughters discover her secret diaries from her time as a student at Melbourne University in the late nineteen twenties and early nineteen thirties. The diaries reveal her passionate relationships with other young women, her struggles to live out her ideals about freedom, love and equality, and the choices she faces that will impact on her children for the rest of their lives.