Alison Booth

So that from that childhood experience and the romantic imagery, you know, looking through the glass,

She's clearly, I think, developing or is already a very sensuous, sensual being and very aware of things around her, sensation, fabrics.

Then she actually makes beautiful objects.

And then her marriage and her experiences in Sydney really change her.

Well, before I get onto that, I'd just like to read a little excerpt about the globe.

This is from page 36.

And when she talks about likening my past life to a globe suspended in my head, that she's being careful not to let the globe spin to expose what she calls the nether side on which her marriage has left her.

multitude of images.

One of those images on the nether side of the globe is Colin Porsche's

who is a man that she married, I think that her illness allows her to actually look at the nether side of the globe.

It spins sometimes.

She can flick it herself or it accidentally twists and she sees the past.

They were both in love.

They headed off to Sydney.

They chose, well, she chose to live there.

At Potts Point in Sydney, they take a room in an old house with a waterfront.

There she lives a life that she thinks would suit her, bohemian people around.

But then they move back into suburbia because she grew up in suburbia in Brisbane.

But this is a rather dreadful Sydney variant of suburbia there.

She learns that her husband likes her to be completely passive.