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Nourma Handford worked as a journalist and was the editor of the Australian Women's Digest for three years. She mostly wrote teenage romances, but also published four novels for adults. She married Eric Handford in 1927.
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'Hope, a country girl manages her father's sheep property. Fran is her house guest and, being newry engaged, is inclined to live in a romantic vacuum. Rory is a typical schoolboy with outstanding talent in the game of harassing adults.
'The adventure come to a climax when three cattle thieves are captured.'
Source:
'Literary Nook', Cairns Post, 27 September 1952, p.8.
A newspaper report on the novel's commendation at the Children's Book Council Book of the Year awards described it as 'a tale of schoolgirl twins on an outback station, with a romance between their brother and a squatter's daughter thrown in.'