In Hear the Train Blow Pasty Adam-Smith, one of Australia's best-loved and most successful authors, tells of her experiences growing up in the bush during the Great Depression. This book is a celebration of the ordinary people of Australia and of a life that no longer exists. Fettlers travel to work by car and use labour-saving machines where once Patsy's father and his mates toiled with their 28-pound hammers. Not one station where her mother was station-mistress still stands.
