The New Zealand author's first novel to be set in Australia, reputedly based on her experiences working as a maid on an isolated sheep station. The dustwrapper blurb has other ideas, '... an English girl, [Helena Savine] a writer in search of new experiences. She finds it ... when she enters the Jerumba sheep station as a servant. For there she crashes against the antipathy of the vilest female character [Mrs. Shadrack], that any author has yet conceived – a walking exhibition of neurotic bestiality that is neither fantastic nor overdrawn.' The only edition.
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