'Martin Boyd is a member of the Anglo-Australian upper classes; he has advocated that life should be lived for pleasure, and has written poetry, novels, autobiographies, articles, and letters on various subjects to the editors of the leading newspapers of his time. He has mixed with dukes and duchesses, has fought in a world war, studied to be a priest and an architect, but become neither Not surprisingly he has been labelled a dilettante.' (Introduction, paragraph one.)
