Growing up in an Australian country town before World War I, Jackie
Hanna and Cushie Moy are carefree and innocent in their love for each
other. But Jackie is a dwarf, and his devotion to the beautiful Cushie
is condemned by her parents. This is the story of their life-long
odyssey, and of the triumph of a special kind of courage. In Swords and
Crowns and Rings Ruth Park brilliantly captures the mood and tempo of
Australian life from 1907 until 1931.