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'Our minds are like those maps at the entrance to the Metro stations in Paris. They are full of unilluminated directions. But when we know where we want to go and press the right button, the route is illuminated before us in electric clarity.
Diana von Flugel warned her husband: a piece of toast that hard could break a tooth. When Diana goes to Melbourne to have the tooth fixed, Wolfie is far too concerned with finding inspiration for his musical compositions to realise the chain of events he has just set in motion. On Collins Street, Russell Lockwood catches a glimpse of his childhood friend and knows at once that she is a rare woman…
Now Diana and Wolfie’s marriage is under threat, the Great War is approaching, and no one quite knows where their hearts belong. First published in 1957, the third novel in Martin Boyd’s celebrated Langton Quartet is a beguiling comedy of manners about the outbreak of love in inconvenient places. ' (Publisher's blurb)
Outbreak of Love
( dir. Oscar Whitbread
)
1981
Australia
:
ABC Television
,
1981
Z305931
1981
series - publisher
film/TV
A three-part drama series based on Martin Boyd's novel of the same name, Outbreak of Love explores the lives of a well-to-do section of Melbourne society in the years leading up to World War One.
Martin Boyd's Anglo-Australian Novels : A Study of the Development of Major Themes
Canberra
:
1987
19385333
1987
single work
thesis
'This thesis explores the development of major themes in Martin Boyd's Anglo Australian novels, that is, The Mont forts, Lucinda Bray ford and the Langton sequence. Examination of these novels shows that, though constantly drawing on Boyd's family background and his personal experience in both Australia and Europe, they are not repetitive, but demonstrate a trend towards growing maturity in writing.' (Abstract introduction)
