BIOGRAPHY: Vida Goldstein was an advocate for women's rights, a campaigner for peace, fought for the distribution of wealth, and a trail-blazer who provided leadership and inspiration to innumerable people.
As a young woman from a good family, Maisie travels across the world to marry a distant cousin of whom she knows nothing, but things don’t turn out at all as she was expecting.
Controversial historian Geoffrey Blainey continues his social history of Australia in this 2nd book, spanning from the discovery of gold in western NSW, onwards.