The latest novel by the award-winning Sydney-based writer Gail Jones – author of 10 novels, a couple of short story collections and numerous critical works – is a complex and delicately written story about displacement, loss and the power of the imagination.
It’s 1992 and Helen is in Cambridge writing a doctoral thesis on one of the greatest writers in the western canon, Joseph Conrad. The author of Heart of Darkness was a Pole who settled in England, an outsider to the language that he used to write complex tales of guilt, betrayal, obsession and greed that were often inspired by his own experiences on the high seas.
