Now, circumstances have forced her to set things straight, but in recalling the events and her reasons for hiding them she re-lives this whole deeply distressing fragment of her past. And she re-lives it vividly in an Australian landscape which is alien to her Englishness but which she recalls with a photographer's eye for colour, mood and detail. The photographs in the book could very well be hers. Caroline Baker, the author, tells a good story and she tells it well. And all those problems which I had at the start of the story may well be all my own but could just as well be attributed to the skill with which Baker presents her very believable heroine.
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