AustLit

'Beginning on Tuesday next, we will give a new story, by Mrs. Elsie M. Baily, author of "Outcasts of Eden" and "Pathways to the Sky." Entitled "Passing the Love of Women," it is a romance of Australia on a new note—the inland with its great wide plains and endless distances, and in that colourful setting full of "atmosphere," the author tells a tale of men and women of the outback, in which are interwoven scintillating flashes and sketches of the country and its mysteries the blacks, heat, storm, dust, and gold.

'This is an unusual book. The heroine is a nurse, who has taken a post in a hospital in Central Australia, to cut herself off from a bitter past. There she meets a man who revives her almost broken spirit, and stirs her heart to a new love, but his mate is a figure from her former life, who causes disturbing complications. The whole thing is cleverly done. The major characters play their parts almost entirely within the walls of the hospital, but the reader is not burdened with hospital detail and medical jargon, but taken again and again, with quick brush strokes, out into the great openness of the inland with much adept character-drawing and scene-painting. It is written with a practised hand, a well-constructed tale, in which the interest is never allowed to drag.'

- The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 April 1934, p. 4