'The third section of the cycle, The Lost Years, saw Selways of three and ultimately four generations dealing with changing conditions during the depression and the immediately pre-war period. By now the family history is so intricate that anyone coming fresh to the series must have been sadly mystified last night by frequent veiled references to events that have gone before, while those who saw the earlier sections had to spend the first half hour sorting out who had grown up into whom.
'On the other hand, there has been a sufficient proliferation of Selways in the intervening years to permit of more variety than was possible before. They now move quite freely between Sydney and the old homestead at Billabilla. There are errant aunts and their offsprings to be reclaimed, a politician uncle to be heard on the radio, and some suggestion, now that they have largely abandoned their vocation as Archers of the Outback, ever ready with useful hints about the intricacies of sheep-rearing, that there is life beyond the confines of a sheep-farm.'
Source:
'The Lost Years', The Times, 9 February 1959, p.12.
