The Missus is the second book in a trilogy tracing the blossoming of a woman's identity and sexuality from childhood through to middle age. Following on Brothers? Uncles! Sister? Aunt! it traces Sue's marriage from the late 1940s to the 1980s when she meets Bhagwan Sri Rajneesh. The story is set against the complex lives of her extended family, exploring themes common to many Australian marriages of that era.