'Right from the beginning this enthralling story confronts the reader with the seemingly endless difficulties that Italian immigrant woman Cloris De Matteis faces 'Down Under' in her new adopted country Australia. Spurned by her family and eventually disappointed by all the men in her life, she tries to cope with a young family in a foreign culture brimming with prejudices and scorn. This is a truly inspiring story - a tale that ends back where it started from, but one that provides a profound insight into the forces that drive someone to seek a new life on the other side of the world and later is courageous enough to admit and analyse her wrong decisions. It is a refreshing outsider's view of the diverse struggles she discovers 'Down Under' and the battles to overcome them. -- From the publisher's website at http://www.trafford.com/07-2580.
