Series ✦ Penny’s Take
The Impersonators
Jessica Anderson · 2003
78/100
👍 Worth It
Anderson won both the Miles Franklin Award and the NSW Premier's Literary Prize for this, and the sharp observational comedy around inheritance, class, and family performance holds up. Sylvia's critical outsider perspective is genuinely distinctive, and the novel earns its reputation as an important work of Australian women's fiction even if its quiet stakes won't hold every reader.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety78
substance78
craft82
originality76
accuracy75
hype72
age_fit68
human_eye80
Penny’s verdict78
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