AustLit

Nine years after leaving Papua New Guinea, Chris Davage thinks he's finished with that country - its beauty, its turmoil and its people. Until he meets Timii, an ex-student, in a crowded Canberra shopping centre. Timii, now a young woman of strength and charm, is also that special kind of adventurer, prepared to risk her skin to test her conviction. Through Timii, Davage is drawn again to the country he once believed was 'home' and also into a quietly dangerous cause-that of the West Papuans, twenty years under Indonesian rule. Family, job, friendships, his whole settled life, lose their meaning in a tangle of conflicting emotions as Davage pursues a new ideal of freedom, justice...and difficult love. (Publisher's blurb, back cover).