Olga Masters

Abandoned by her feckless husband during the Depression, Amy decides to leave her country town and her three infant children to try her luck in the big smoke. Life in wartime Sydney is far from easy, but for Amy there are the hard-won satisfactions of an office job and a house of her own. Until her eldest, Kathleen, appears needing...

The Home Girls is a collection of candid, witty stories about rural and suburban life. Set in the mid-twentieth century, these tales capture the essence of ordinary people and domestic life. Masters was, as the Advertiser remarked, 'a natural storyteller'. Between the publication of The Home Girls in 1982 and her death, Olga Masters was acclaimed as one of Australia's...