Some Everyday Folk and Dawn

About the book

"Some Everyday Folk and Dawn" by Miles Franklin is a novel published in 1909. Set in the small Australian town of Noonoon during a pivotal moment when women have just gained voting rights, the story follows Dawn, a young woman living with her grandmother who runs a boarding house. Against the backdrop of a heated election campaign between rival candidates, a romance develops between Dawn and local athlete Ernest Breslow, capturing the social tensions and transformations of early twentieth-century Australia.