It tells a story of Oscar Hopkins, an English Anglican priest, and Lucindthe Leplastrier, a immature Australian heiress world health organization buys the glass manufactory. It meet on the boat assibilate to Australia, and discover that it each such as to gamble. Lucindthe bets Oscar that he can't conveyance a glass church into the outback around a single piece. This bet changes each their survives forever.

A novel partially requires its inspiration from either Father & Boy, a autobiography of the English poet Edmund Gosse, which describes his relationship with his father, Philip Henry Gosse.

a film was processed from either the book around 1997, directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Ralph Fiennes, Cate Blanchett and Tom Wilkinson.

category:Australian novels