Cirrus@Austlit

'Themes of desire, memory, loss and the various guises of damage, are woven into stories that cross time and continents, like isobars of the psyche, presenting a variety of characters, each caught in moments of crisis and illumination.'

Source: Publisher's blurb (Virago ed.).

'Who are the heroines women look to? Twenty-two Australian writers of fiction, drama, poetry, journalism, TV scripts and non-fiction reflect on their heroines. There are extraordinary women and ordinary women; mothers, detectives, old women, teenagers, sisters, lesbians, rural women, urban women. ' (Source: Book Despository website)