'The novel is really in the form of a family chronicle, dating from the time that Emily, daughter of a successful pioneer pastoralist in Victoria, ran away with a stockman, who, unknown to her, was a bushranger, till her granddaughter, with some of the grandmother's love of independence, plays her part in Melbourne In the present struggle for survival.'
Source:
'Australian Fiction', The Courier-Mail, 16 December 1944, p.5.
The Gods aloft must have their sport
That jerk the strings, and frenziedly
Dead puppets dance to a tune called Life.
(Translation) - Simon Holecek.
