title: Stand We at Last
author: Fairbairns, Zoe
description: Sarah & Helena. Sisters in the year 1855. For Helena the future was marriage to a wealthy manufacturer of military suppliers, childless and shot through with pain. For Sarah, a new continent beckoned from the other side fo the world. The long voyage to Australia, the hard life of the bush, survival against odds.
  
  Pearl was the next generation. Branded a child prostitute in a garrison town and seeking out what salvation she could as wife to a working man and mother to sons destined for death in the trenches.
  
  Ruby, the surviovor, wife to a merchant of the Raj and widow to a vitim of India's indipendence, coming home to an old age of large gins and loneliness.
  
  And Jackie, child of the liberated society and heir to the struggles of women through more than a century....