'Julie Purvis, alone after her mother's death, goes to live with her Breton mother's family, until then unknown to her. The story tells of her struggle to achieve intimacy and loving comprehension among those whose blood is hers, but are alien to her in temperament and education. Her efforts to adapt herself to her new environment meet with little success, and she Is finally convinced that her real happiness will be found, not with these strangers to her. but in the country of her birth, which has formed arid can satisfy her necessities.'
Source:
'New Books: Lismore School of Arts', Northern Star, 18 September 1934, p.11.
