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. The poor reviews seem to compare it to either a radio or tv mini-series, but I believe the writing holds up very well and stands on its own. The only working class characters that even get names are a pretty young ‘footman’, and later his wife and son. books but we didn't think that would have worked, although we do carry a limited amount of other genres. Wendy Hughes is without doubt one of Australia’s great beauties and has proven her ability as an actress in numerous films and long-running television series.

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 pover. Given the opportunity, Lucinda cultivates her own budding romance with Pat, Hugo’s close friend, who has remained in England. painter Arthur Boyd (1920 - 1999), sculptor Guy Boyd (1923 - 1988), painter David Boyd (1924 - 2011), painter Mary Nolan (b. He gambles away her money as well as his own and refuses to give up his mistress of ten years, Mrs Fabian Parker (Virginia Rooksby), despite the fact that he and Lucinda now have a child, Stephen (played by James Adamson and Stephen Oldfield). The events than focus on his relationships with his family, his friends, his marriage to a Vane family member, and WW2.His experiences temporarily jolt him out of his rather indulgent life of art and self-pity, forcing him to confront the rest of humanity.

K. and Australia that he longed to be a member of, but in more than 500 pages we hardly get a glimpse of anyone else. 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. By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. His work drew heavily on his own life and family, with his novels frequently exploring the experiences of the Anglo-Australian upper and middle classes. 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’.She sits alone in the small enclave of culture and tradition, rapt with the richness that so unexpectedly holds out against the gloom. Hugo fears what a divorce could do to his reputation and to the considerable allowance he gets from Lucinda’s family. These novels—particularly Lucinda Brayford (1946) and the Langton quartet, beginning with The Cardboard Crown (1952)—were chronicles too of the decline of the genteel and aristocratic tradition. In fact, all of Melbourne social life, it seems, was built to re-create in the new world, however disreputable family origins may have been, an aristocracy of form (if not of blood) based on the English model. Nevertheless, Stephen is married, and soon after is divorced, the victim of his kind, unsuspecting heart: His wife has run off with a young capitalist.