Ride on Stranger

As Shannon Hicks comes of age she goes to live with an aunt in Sydney, and begins to see that it's more than just her family who are always in the wars. For a start, it is the 1930s, so the Great Depression has all working people scrapping and struggling, survival the aim. Shannon discovers what makes the world go round. In a broad and comic group of vignettes of life when the chips are down, of rollicking humour and wry and dry wit, Kylie Tennant essays a character very much like herself, with extraordinary success.