''Time and Chance'' is an Australian novel by Alma Timms. It was the twelfth in the

Great South Land Saga The Great South Land Saga was a series of 12 novels by E. V. Timms and his wife Alma. From the beginning, Timms envisioned a 12-part series of novels. However he died while writing the eleventh and his wife took over the completion of that. She the ...

of novels originally started by

E. V. Timms Edward Vivian Timms (1895–1960), better known as E. V. Timms, was an Australian novelist and screenwriter. He was injured serving in the Gallipoli Campaign during World War I and was an unsuccessful soldier settler before turning to writing. ...

. He died in 1960 while writing the 11th, ''The Big Country'', which his wife Alma completed; she then wrote the final instalment. Alma had researched and help plot all the novels with her husband, so the task was relatively simple. The books were republished in one volumen in 1978 as ''The Timms Saga''.

Plot

The Gubbys - Martha, her husband, daughter Penelope, her husband Simon - return to England to visit Mary Ann.

Background

When E.V. Timms died, his widow Alma completed his novel, ''The Big Country''. Then she went overseas, came back home and moved to the city. She was unsure what to do next, and decided to write a nove that would complete her husband's Great Southern Land Saga.

Reception

The ''Canberra Times'' wrote it "marks the end of a saga which began with much promise in 'Forever to Remain' and gradually frittered away into formula romance, which Mrs Timms handles no worse than her husband in his declining years." ''The Age'' called it "light, pleasant reading." Alma Timms later wrote another novel under her own name, ''A Town Rising'' (1976).

References

External links

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