AustLit

'Whilst the COVID virus spreads across Australia, Ian O Ustinoff and Allistaire Armstrong of Lord Winston’s Grammar School in Brisbane are concerned for their students.

'In Woodbridge Waters, Patrick Lloyd is getting into financial difficulties.

'Elderly residents, Caroline Meekin and Lewis Carter living in the Caravan Park are concerned as rents, food and petrol prices skyrocket. And amidst it all, the Government seems to lurch from one reaction to another.

'Through it all, ninety-year-old Ursula Plummer prays for all the people she meets on her daily walk, offering sympathy, a calming spirit and providing, she hopes, a defence against the snakes in the grass.' (Publication summary)