Nellie Melba appears in the novel, singing at a garden party thrown by Lucinda's mother, and is described as having the "loveliest voice in the world". Director John Gauci uses every trick in the book to cover the relative lack of budget, cutting corners by dropping shots and employing corner sets and very basic multi-camera set-ups ( clip one).

A poor condition book can still make a good reading copy but is generally not collectible unless the item is very scarce. Boyd was an expatriate novelist, memoirist, and poet who spent most of his life after World War One in Europe, primarily Britain. Then World War I cripples and disfigures Hugo, and there's irony in Lucinda becoming the one who adopts marital infidelity as a way of life- and that with Huge's closest friend. She performs her level best as the beautiful and tragic Lucinda, but the truncation of the story means ultimately that the workings of Lucinda’s mind and heart remain a mystery.

Of her two suitors, Toorak socialite Tony Duff (Sam Neill) and British aristocrat Captain Hugo Brayford (Barry Quin), she chooses to marry the dashing, amoral Hugo who carries her off to England and the ancestral home ‘Crittenden’. Read all Based on the novel by Martin Boyd (1946) this miniseries tells the story of many generations of a family who migrate from England to Australia and eventually back to England, suffering poverty and becoming social climbers. He was intensely involved in family life and took a keen interest in the development of his nephews and nieces, and their families, including potter Lucy Beck (b. books but we didn't think that would have worked, although we do carry a limited amount of other genres. Lucinda's life of ease is replaced by hardship when Hugo takes her to England just before the First World War.

Jacket Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps. Unfortunately, although the trappings were correct, there was no sense of social responsibility or personal morality. If you are a fan of the Brontes, Henry James, Edith Wharton, or any late 19th-early 20th C literature dealing with class, relationships, manners or society, you will enjoy this novel.

If you are interested in early Australian literature, and observations of cultural differences between Australia and England, you will get a lot out of this book. But the main story follows their daughter Lucinda, in her marriage to Huge Brayford, outwardly a conventional, easy-going ""younger son"", assuming his wife will decorate his chosen path, while he strays down forbidden lanes. A leisurely book, somewhat old-fashioned in its rhythm, tracing three generations of an Anglo-Australian family.

The only working class characters that even get names are a pretty young ‘footman’, and later his wife and son. Lucinda has an affair with one of Hugo’s friends, but doesn’t divorce Hugo, who is injured at the end of the First World War. The married couple live happily in England until Hugo begins making excuses for long absences from Lucinda.She sits alone in the small enclave of culture and tradition, rapt with the richness that so unexpectedly holds out against the gloom. A completely charming novel of three generations of Australians, the Vanes and the Brayfords, who struggle to find their place in Australian 'society' around the turn of the century (pre WWI), then again in pre- and post war England (WWII).