You’d hardly know our street anymore . . . it looks like some place in Africa where there’s been fi ghting, not like Sydney. I know they had to pull down houses that you couldn’t live in no more and they’ll put up new ones instead only they’ll be different so The Rocks’ll really never look the same again, will it? The year 1900 was a momentous one for Kitty Barnes. Bubonic plague, the Black Death, was killing large numbers of people; the country was on the
verge of becoming a federation; Kitty’s brother was in Africa fi ghting in the Boer War; and Kitty was fi nding herself somewhat attracted to Reggie, the boy down the road.
