"Lucinda Vane was born into a wealthy Melbourne family. Both beautiful and talented, Lucinda spurned the love of a distinguished family friend to marry the dashing Aide de Camp to the Governor, Hugo Brayford. The elegant young woman should then have enjoyed a life of fairy-tale happiness, but instead her life of ease and wealth in Melbourne is replaced by hardship and austerity when Hugo takes her to England just before the First World War. Despite her beauty, her husband has married her more for her money than love, as he is not as wealthy as he has made out. She also discovers he has a mistress but, to her distress, he refuses to give her a divorce. The advent of the Second World War leads to more distress and heartbreak that continues into the next generation."
"First published: London : Cresset, 1946."
"Reissue of one of the author's most noted novels that deals with three generations of an Anglo-Australian family around the turn of the twentieth century contrasting both Australian and English society."
"An Anglo-Australian family, from the 1880s to the early 1940s."
"The story of three generations of an Anglo-Australian family, beginning with Lucinda's grandfather. After Lucinda's father restores the family fortune, she marries Hugo Brayford, and moves to England, where the whole course of Lucinda's life changes."@en