06 Mar 2006
Telling Schoolgirl Tales: The Making of 'The Getting of Wisdom’
First there was ‘Picnic at Hanging Rock’, then ‘My Brilliant Career’, and now best of all ‘The Getting of Wisdom’. It is incomparably moving and powerful.
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