Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living : A Novel (Paperback)

from mtranter

Nature is real enemy. First person narrative works well. Girl recording her own, husbands and districts activities. Robert ( husband) embodies spirit of the train. Evokes idealism of the 1930's . Cracks in ideology begin to show as story progresses. Social history.

from mbmackay

This is a fine first novel. Gently told, using the "show, don't tell" technique, the book seems simple, but I'd deceptively deep. I wished, at the end, that there was more - the plot and the characters could easily continue to grow. Read Oct 2013.

from tamora

This book would have benefited by some judicious pruning. The discription of a severe drought and its effect on farmers is memorable.

from readingwithtea

Set mostly in the Mallee (the dried-out plains of north-western Victoria in Australia), this little book tells the story of Jean's time working as a dressmaking instructor on the Better Farming Train in the late 1920s and early 1930s, before the depression came to Australia and farmers were start...

from PhilipJHunt

Really good on multiple levels. History, romance, life on the land, anecdotes, humour. Loved it.