Cirrus@Austlit

'Tiny has gone to Paris on a holiday, and it is there that a young Englishman involves her in an affair which affects the whole of her life. Her lover inherits a dukedom, and disbelieving Tiny's statement that she is the daughter of a clergyman, and not a coquette, leaves her. In order to give her first born a name, an English baronet marries Tiny on the understanding that the marriage is not to be consummated. The rest of this dramatic tale is told with a consummate understanding of the need for a gripping plot, and the swiftly changing locale and atmosphere here provide one of the finest novels that has ever come out of Australia.'

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'Maiden's Prayer', Riverina Recorder, 28 April 1934, p.4.

'Lilian Desmond, a beautiful golden-haired English painter, married twice, both husbands killed in the War. It seems to her as if all hope and joy are ended forever. She comes out to New Zealand in search of a new world to paint. She has renounced love and has turned to art as her only solace. She stays in the home of the Ewings, mother and son, whom she takes to be poor, simple people.' (Australian Women's Weekly, v1:6, 1933 p. 7)