Missus

Over one and a half million readers have enjoyed The Harp in the South and Poor Man’s Orange.

These two classics of Australian life have at last been joined by Missus – the first book in the continuing story about the Darcys of Number Twelve-and-a-half Plymouth Street, Surry Hills.

Missus takes us behind the lives of Hughie and Mumma, out of the gritty realism of inner city slum life and into the past of the stations, the bush and the country towns. We meet them as they were in the early 1920s, drifter Hugh Darcy, the unwilling hero who sweeps the dreamily innocent Margaret Kilker off her feet. Ruth Park richly creates the turmoil of those early days of their courtship – in the dusty outback.