Set in Sydney during the Great Depression, Caddie tells the story of a young mother’s desperate efforts to survive and earn an existence in hard times. Caddie leaves her adulterous and brutish husband and takes her two children with her. Forced to work as a barmaid in a pub, a morally suspect position, she struggles to maintain her respectability while ensuring she can support her children. She sees the Sydney scene on all levels -the seamy underworld, middle-class respectability and pseudo-gentility. Caddie is a battler, a girl with honest, plain guts and, despite her troubles, she never goes under.
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