Not All Tea and Scones (ATOM Study Guide)

Not All Tea and Scones (Carmel Travers, 2007) is a four-part series about the state of the bush as viewed through the prism of one organization, the Country Women's Association.

The series is a gentle/sad portrait of a life that's fading fast, told through the stories of rural women as they prepare for the annual The Land Cooking Contest.

We see plenty of jams and chutneys, and scones and tarts; but also droughts and deaths, bankruptcies and auctions, tractors and tragedies, mothers and babies, town and country.

We discover that the Country Women's Association is arguably the bond that binds rural Australia together through the greatest challenges they have faced to traditional rural life in the organization's 85-year history.