Cirrus@Austlit

Married for only three months to Frank, Olive is unhappy on her husband's isolated property. She longs to return to the life she knew in Sydney, but a ride with Fielding, one of her husband's employees, gives her a different view of her new life.

Freed at last from her responsibility to look after her younger sister, Jane Comfort sells her shop and moves to Brisbane where she sets herself up as a counsellor. But her heart has remained with John Dale, whom she has always believed was in love with her sister. Then a letter sent to the wrong person has a surprising outcome.

Willowee provides lengthy extracts from a recently published book Letters of Women in Love: Disclosing the Female Heart from Girlhood to Old Age by R. L. Megroz. The range of personages is extraordinary and Willowee quotes from the letters of both famous and less well known women.

Edna Walling argues that placing houses with the main rooms facing the road and parallel with boundary fences is wasteful and illogical. She calls for more imagination in designing houses so that land and views are properly utilised.