Missus: Ruth ParkMissus is the prequel to Harp in the South and Poor Man's Orange and tells of the courtship and marriage of Mumma and Hughie Darcy an event later romanticised out of all proportion by both Mumma and Hughie in the later books! It is set in a time of annual works outings on the river, wearing corsets to picnics and Christmas pudding eating contests a slower era long gone from the Australian social landscape.