The Road from Coorain By Jill Kerr Conway I found it very difficult to read this book. I understand that it is the story of Jill Kerr Conway’s life, and that it would be hard to make a life sound interesting where you grew up isolated until you were 11years old, never coming in contact with another girl your age until you were seven, your nearest neighbor being 50 miles away, and being a sheep …showed first 75 words of 1485 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1485 total…this could make up for all the years of suffering in silence at the mercy of her parents who did not seem to have any answers for her or any suggestions as to how a human being survives such a hard and cruel life, beyond, “Don’t cry about it,” and “Do better than I have done.” I felt empathy for her but found the bleakness of her life as presented in the book emotionally