AustLit

Young Love 'begins with a double marriage, two lads and two girls. One of the latter is a girl of French origin, who is playing in a travelling dramatic company; the other is the daughter of a country parson, a brave, true-hearted girl. Of the lads, one is the son of a squatter, the other the son of a stranger who had drifted to the station with his boy, and had there become anchored. The lads grew up together, and together made the great start in life. [...] The book has in it true local colour, and there are literary passages, which, though not stilted, show singular refinement of taste and a keen sense of the beautiful in life as in landscape.' Source: [Untitled] review, The Queenslander, 1902.