[1] The novel is set in Gippsland, Victoria, which is depicted as an idyllic place with peoples from many nations working on the land in harmony.

The novel is a sequel of sorts to the author's earlier book The Pea-Pickers, and features the same characters two years later.

Peter Harding, writing in The Sydney Morning Herald, found the novel "is, more than anything else, a poem.

"[2] Peggy Wright was impressed with the novel in The News (Adelaide): "It is impossible to be lukewarm about Eve Langley.

Personally, I can take all Eve Langley likes to write, and come back for more...The book is packed with lively characters music-loving Italians, and casual Australians, university graduates and laborers.