Helen Trinca

And so she's, that really struck me.

That's quite unusual.

That's a terrific little book.

And then the one that, of course,

was nominated for the book but didn't win in 1997, is The Essence of the Thing, which is again about another affair.

So she's interested in, you know, infidelity and betrayal and, you know, and disappointments.

That's a lovely little book again about an affair.

But again, it's about a woman getting over a broken relationship and terrifically done.

Her final book, the final published book, is A Stairway to Paradise, similar story.

a story about a couple of men, both of whom are in love with the same woman.

And it's great.

It's perhaps a little bit more uneven than the other two.

And, of course, there was a fifth sort of manuscript, which I've seen.

It was Bruce Beresford, as a literary executor, had a look at it and decided whether or not they could publish it after her death, but it's a bit too fragmented.

So she was trying to write another book towards the end of her life when she was suffering so much lymphocema

bad health that it was very hard to get it done.

But maybe sometime along the way, that book will get published as well in some form.

And those of us who love to read her will be able to get another novel.

I think it made me look, certainly made me look at it more deeply in some ways, because, for example, when I first read The Women in Black, I didn't really like it that much.

I sort of thought, oh, this is a bit too