This is an account of how the author answered an advertisement for a wife to spend a year on a tropical island with a writer, and subsequently found herself alone on a remote desert island with a husband she hardly knew.
This remarkable book is both the compulsive story of a young girl's stormy passage to maturity and a desperate search for sexual identity after violation. It is an unflinching record of courage, honesty, rebellion and survival - and the price that can be paid for true independence.
Persönlicher Bericht einer jungen Engländerin, die mit einem älteren Schriftsteller auf einer unbewohnten Insel vor der australischen Küste das Überleben probt.