Author(s): Stephen Orr

ART & DESIGN

As Hitler's war looms, famous Australian artist Roland Griffin returns home with his family to live a simple life of shared plums and low-cut lawns in the suburbs. In the yard: a daughter, and a son, Hal, growing up with a preoccupied father who is always in his shed stretching canvases and painting outback pubs. Everything is a picture, a symbol.