Earth's Quality

Earth's Quality (1935) is a novel by Australian author Winifred Birkett.

[2] Set on a sheep station in the Yass district of New South Wales, the novel tells the story of the Waldron family.

The owner John is partially paralysed and forced to cede control of his beloved Laverock station to his nephew, which ends badly.

It has humour, as one might expect from the author of Three Goats on a Bender; it has beauty of phrase and word, as is natural from a pen that has produced verse of no mean order; but it has also that insight, sincerity, and power without which no story, however good, can really 'live' in the world of letters.

"[3] A reviewer in The Age was a little more critical: "Miss Birkett is not very successful in portraying woman characters, and her story is somewhat bare of incident, but the literary quality of her book lifts it much above the level of most Australian novels.