Lieutenant Suzanne Donovan is ordered back to St. Georges Heights in Sydney by Colonel Barbara Maxwell - her only way of travelling there from 'Kapooka' in southern New South Wales is the overnight 'Mail Train' from Albury. And, she must deal with a bi Prostitute and a lesbian Conductor along the way!
Diaries and correspondence supplement the chronicle of a young man's summer as he initiates his young cousins, their friend and a schoolteacher by gentle punishment and deception.
A beautiful dismissive girl moves in upstairs and becomes one of those neighbors. Loud, uncaring, annoying. Then she stopped and became something else.