AustLit

'The Long Summer [...] succeeded to some extent in avoiding the anxiety to impart information on all conceivable subjects connected with Australian life which marred the first episode, though some sizable chunks of constitutional history were conveyed during the beginning in rather awkward exchanges designed, ostensibly, to put the son newly returned from Cambridge in touch with local affairs or explain to the farmers what was going on in the centres of government. On the whole, however, education had given place to the exploration of personal tensions between members of the Selwood [sic] family: two brothers in love with the same girl, who happens to be the wife of one of them; a sister taking up with the local bad lot out of boredom, and so on.'

Source:

'The Long Summer', The Times, 2 February 1959, p.12.