Published by Penguin Books, 1984, 223 pages.

"If there is one good thing that came out of the Depression (apart from the profits to the makers of picks and shovels) it is this book by Tony Simpson. It moves to anguish if you have any memory or sensibility." - Denis Glover

"This intense book has moved me to despair, exasperation, fury of remembrance, and a somewhat sour hopefulness." - NZ Listener

"The total effect is a moving, even numbing impression of what life must have been like in the Land of Milk and Honey when the milk went sour and the honey ran dry." - Sunday Times