Moira Lambert was a typical suburban girl of her times - dutiful, sometimes frivolous, hardworking, romantic and plucky. She was born at the end of the Great War into a middle-class Australian family. They lived comfortable but not glamorous lives in a suburban villa with a fowl house, a fernery and an outdoor lavatory. Although innocent by the standards of today, and determinedly romantic, the schoolgirls of the 1920s and 1930s also learned to be self-reliant and resourceful - qualities which would stand Moira in good stead. Her ability and intelligence led her to the university and a variety of high level positions. The years of World War 2 - spent in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane and south-west Queensland - brought hard work, frantic gaiety and tragic romances with young men who did not survive.  A nostalgic account of the manners and mores of another era, full of authentic and amusing detail and, the reader may suspect, not as artless and simple as it seems.