This mini-series is part of a genre of filmed productions which is known as ''depression era drama''.
This mini-series was made and first broadcast about fifty-three years after its source novel of the same name by Kylie Tennant had been first published in 1941.
Jacqueline McKenzie was nominated for an AFI (Australian Film Institute) Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role in a Television Drama but lost out to Monica Maughan for 'The Damnation of Harvey McHugh' for the "My Brilliant Chorea" episode.
This mini-series won the Logie Award for Most Popular Drama at their Australian television awards ceremony in 1995.
This mini-series was first broadcast in 1994 which was about sixty years after when the story is set in 1934.