Dot King is a 77-year-old mother, grandmother and great grandmother who lives with her husband in Hervey Bay, Queensland, Australia. She has travelled widely throughout Australia and Tasmania. Her two sons were born in Malaya where her husband was posted for two years with the army during the Borneo campaign. They were also posted to Singapore for two years.
Josie, the heroine of the book, becomes a history teacher. She marries Addy and conceives a daughter before he dies. Having read the letters written from Malaya by her great-great-aunt in 1900, she learns about a disease that repeats itself in her daughter, requiring radical surgery. She becomes emo...
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