| The Aunt's Story | |
| Author: | Patrick White |
| Country: | Australia |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher: | Routledge & Kegan Paul (UK) Viking Press (US) |
| Release Date: | 1948 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Pages: | 248 |
| Preceded By: | The Living and the Dead (1941) |
| Followed By: | The Tree of Man (1955) |
| Isbn: | 978-1-74166-758-5 |
| Oclc: | 231621806 |
The Aunt's Story is the third published novel by the Australian novelist and 1973 Nobel Prize-winner, Patrick White. It tells the story of Theodora Goodman, a lonely middle-aged woman who travels to France after the death of her mother, and then to America, where she experiences what is either a gradual mental breakdown or an epiphanic revelation.
Although the novel was shunned by the reading public upon its initial publication in 1948, White himself expressed a personal fondness for it: "It is the one I have most affection for," he wrote in 1959, "and I always find it irritating that only six Australians seem to have liked it."[1]