'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.).
St Lucia : University of Queensland Press , 1990 pg. 94-105The stories chosen chart the emotions and the experiences of human beings living at particular times and in particular places. Collected as the landmark of a new millennium approached, the stories represent an interest at that time in past and future.
Melbourne : Addison Wesley Longman Australia , 1997 pg. 150-158