One of the most perplexing figures in modern Australian literary biography, Eve Langley used her experiences as a teenager with her sister in rural Victoria as the basis for her bestselling novel The Pea Pickers.

But many other aspects of her life remain a mystery to this day.

Why did she spend seven years in a mental institution? Why did she change her name to Oscar Wilde? Why did she lose contact with her husband and three children? Why were she and her sister, to whom she was once so close, estranged at the end of her life?

In her biography Helen Vines attempts to find answers to these and other mysteries that surround Langley.

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