Country Australia Publication date 1935 Pages 333 pp Originally published 1935 Genre Literary fiction Preceded by Scandal of Spring | Language English Media type Print Followed by The Painted Princess Publisher J. M. Dent | |
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The Lemon Farm (1935) is a novel by Australian author Martin Boyd.
Contents
Plot outline
In a small English seaside village Lady Davina Chelgrove who leaves her husband Nigel for another, younger man. The affair proceeds towards a tragic ending. The "Lemon Farm" of the title is located in the Mediterranean and is the ideal that the two lovers aspire towards.
Critical reception
A reviewer in The Sydney Morning Herald found a lot to like with the novel: "Well constructed and well written The Lemon Farm is probably the most successful novel that Mr Boyd has yet written. His portrait of Davina herself is not only attractive but firmly and consistently modelled."
In The Argus the reviewer found this a better novel that the author's previous: "The Lemon Farm is written with a firm assured touch yet with subtlety and delicacy. In the main it is tragi-comedy though it deepens into tragedy."