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Martin Boyd's The Lemon Farm is extraordinarily contemporary in its theme of the passion and purity of youth in a dirty, middle-aged world. The two young lovers, coming together on their tiny island off the English coast, are highly individual: Davina, married to a baronet whose fortune comes from 'the evangelical beverages ? tea, coffee and cocoa', who just hasn't got the right taboos in her blood; and Michael, innocent but 'sly, seductive, subversive'. Though they are both in their early twenties, the novel is really a sort of praise of older women, for Davina's experience of the world makes her a generation of the spirit older than Michael.

Their lemon farm is a dream of an escape to somewhere Mediterranean like Cyprus; The Lemon Farm is a master craftsman's balancing of sunlit dream and chill, respectable, destroying reality.

Martin Boyd was born in Switzerland in 1893 of Anglo-Australian parents. He was brought to Australia when six months old where the Boyd family made impressive contributions to the artistic and intellectual life. At the outbreak of the First World War he travelled to England and joined an English regiment and later the English Flying Corps. He did not return to Australia until 1948 when at the height of his literary success. Most of his novels maintain an Anglo-Australian theme and are based on his preoccupation with his own family. Martin Boyd moved to Rome in 1957 and lived there until his death in June 1972