Cirrus@Austlit

Brockhart's Folly was indeed a magical, paradise island, thought Claire when she went there to work - set in a ring of jade sea, with its perpetual sunshine, its tropical trees and flowers, the unbelievable many-coloured corals of the Great Barrier Reef. On the island Claire met two men - David Kolbin, who needed her, and whose little motherless daughter needed her too, and Adam brockway who didn't need her at all, but who could hardly be ignored. Claire had taken this job on Brockway's Folly to escape her emotions, but instead she found them threatening to overwhelm her completely. - from back cover (Classics series, 1980)