Amy's Children: Text Classics

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her countrytown-and her three infant children-and try her luck in the big smoke.
Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of anoffice job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing a home while sheattends high school. And Amy falls in love with a married man...
Enlivened with note-perfect observations of the everyday, wrenching in its portrayal of a youngwoman struggling to succeed yet often wilfully ignorant of her own children, Olga Masters'second and last novel is a triumph. At its centre is Amy, one of the great characters in Australianliterature.
This edition comes with an introduction by the novelist Eva Hornung.