"Ma Jones and her accomplices, Honoria Cheeme and cousin Leonie, have a benevolent genius for interfering. Ma Jones is indeed a specialist in arranging other people's lives. She is middle-aged, solid, shrewd, an inverted snob, with a formidable hand-in-glove understanding with the police. In thirteen hilarious episodes the ladies run the cleaner through the art racket, the poets, the universities, the Security Service, the new rich, the titles racket and, of course, the publishers; in fact through all the seamier pretensions of Australian society." -- from the inside cover.