Another surprise off the shelves off my local library, though this felt a little more removed from what I’d usually consider “my thing”.

Jean Finnegan is a seamstress working on the “Better Farming Train” - touring round Australia in the 1930s telling the farmers, and their wives, what to do. She leaves the train to marry wheat scientist Robert and set up an experimental farm.

I liked the way the story just ambled about, never seeming to be very plotted, but it’s got a plot in there all the same. Nice writing, not so nice happenings, well imagined people, a good read.