This remarkable book is both the compulsive story of a young girl's stormy passage to maturity and a desperate search for sexual identity after violation. It is an unflinching record of courage, honesty, rebellion and survival - and the price that can be paid for true independence.
This is an account of how the author answered an advertisement for a wife to spend a year on a tropical island with a writer, and subsequently found herself alone on a remote desert island with a husband she hardly knew.
Persönlicher Bericht einer jungen Engländerin, die mit einem älteren Schriftsteller auf einer unbewohnten Insel vor der australischen Küste das Überleben probt.