Longtime Passing: Hesba Brinsmead

Longtime Passing tells the story of the Truelance family who came to 'Longtime' in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales after World War I, to build a bark hut and a thriving property. The Truelance children have a world of rainforest and bushland to explore as well as correspondence lessons, helping with the turnip crop and in the sawmill. The reader will see 'Longtime' change as the years pass: a motor-lorry replaces the bullock dray, the telephone line is installed and one by one the children go to High School in Sydney. It is based on Brinsmead's own family as told to her by her grandfather. Cover art by Rob Mancini.