'In 2005 I recorded an interview for the National Library of Australia with the historian Professor Emerita Jill Roe at Macquarie University, where she was a founding member of staff (NLA, Oral TRC 5383). In the interview, Roe engagingly recalled her childhood as a farmer’s daughter on Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. In retirement Roe said she would revisit and write a history of Eyre Peninsula. This pleasing book is the result.' (Introduction)