In the original dustsheet. Tan cloth binding with gilt title on the spine.

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This novel picks up where Digging to Australia left off, telling the story of Jenny alongside that of her ancestor Peggy. Another reviewer writes of Glaister’s ‘honeyed prose ‘ and I couldn’t agree more – reading her is always a joy. But I found the plot of this novel totally unengaging. Jenny’s infatuation with a man thirty years her senior rapidly became tedious and the Peggy narrative didn’t grip me either. The novel contains one big twist towards the end which is frankly implausible. The explanation of why Jenny, who is narrating, is in prison, is shocking but by that time I had lost interest.