This book gives us unique views of the life and struggles of an Australian woman in surmounting unbelievable hardships in remote and isolated parts of Queensland. We are taken into the small town of Gatton in rural Queensland in the early 1900's before the days of electricity and then to the city of Ipswich where my mother studied a college course in dress-making, millinery and cooking. We have views of the remote township of Burketown in the 1940's during the latter stages of World War II, and its connection to the outside world by a barely passable dirt track. Though this book covers the...