Author(s): GATENBY KATHY

Colonial History

This is the true story of two people born and raised in widely different circumstances and in starkly contrasting places - London, England and the Cape Province, South Africa. For over thirty years they each led adventurous, unconnected lives before their paths crossed in 1919 in the aftermath of the Great War. This chance meeting fused a union that spanned more than four decades and withstood the isolation and hardship of life far from both their homelands on remote Maria Island, off the coast of Tasmania. Viv and Hilda's story invites us to reflect upon the resourceful, inventive and resilient nature of those who shaped our country's cultural landscape, and to ponder the possibilities of where love can take you.