Guthrie Carey begins life young: at twenty-one, between voyages, he marries a poor, overworked girl from a Melbourne boarding-house out of sheer kindness. From that impulsive start the novel follows him through the years into the lives of a household of well-to-do sisters, Deb, Rose, Frances and the rest, whose marriages, snobberies and loyalties play out against colonial Victorian society.
A shrewd domestic novel from one of the leading women writers of colonial Australia. Download the free EPUB.