Emily Louise Renoir is the West Australian-born widow of Viscount Renoir from Marseille. The murder of her husband and their involvement with the French Resistance in 1942 forces her to flee through Spain and Portugal to England. She is followed doggedly by Lance Fuller, her neighbour on the Kojonup farm, who is bitter because he believes Emily's farm should belong to him after his father was killed in World War I and his mother had to sell to Emily's father.
Emily initially discounts his claim to the farm, but, after her father's funeral in Kojonup, accepts the way in which Lance's claims are resolved. She returns to England to join the SOE, where her talents are enthusiastically welcomed. The novella is told in the present (1942-3) with flashbacks to growing up in Kojonup in the 1920s and 30s.
Emily Louise Renoir is the West Australian-born widow of Viscount Renoir from Marseille. The murder of her husband and their involvement with the French Resistance in 1942 forces her to flee through Spain and Portugal to England. She is followed doggedly by Lance Fuller, her neighbour on the Kojonup farm, who is bitter because he believes Emily's farm should belong to him after his father was killed in World War I and his mother had to sell to Emily's father.
Emily initially discounts his claim to the farm, but, after her father's funeral in Kojonup, accepts the way in which Lance's claims are resolved. She returns to England to join the SOE, where her talents are enthusiastically welcomed. The novella is told in the present (1942-3) with flashbacks to growing up in Kojonup in the 1920s and 30s.