'Toni Jordan’s latest novel, The Fragments, draws together two women living about 50 years apart: Caddie, an avid reader and bookseller, in Joh Bjelke-Petersen-era Brisbane; and Rachel, a Pennsylvania farmgirl, who runs away from a silk factory and poverty to reinvent herself in 1930s New York. What links them is a world-renowned writer, Inga Karlson, and her first novel, All Has an End.' (Introduction)