'A poignant, heart-wrenching, heart-filling celebration of, and testimony to, an Australia that has changed so much in a lifetime. Yet the raw emotions, loves, tragedies, every day-ness and splendid wonder of the people remain a constant. Helene Smith was raised in the rural area of Linfarn, Manjimup, Western Australia. Her schoolteacher mother handed on a love of literature and a tradition of storytelling which became a lifelong passion.' (Publication summary)
