"Faint Tappings at the Wrong Window" is a picaresque or 'road' novel, set in and between Sydney, Adelaide and Nimbin, a small town in Northern New South Wales that became the centre of the counter-culture after the Aquarius Festival in 1973. The novel shows with great humour that the movement in Australia had a character of its own - almost like its equivalents in Europe and America but with differences that are uniquely Australian. It also chronicles the dramatic events of the dismissal of the Whitlam Government from a wholly new viewpoint. The 'hero' is a man who cannot find his rightful place in either 'straight' or 'alternative' society but in his travels assumes responsibility for finding a stray dog a home. The well-rounded characters are engaging and entertaining, dealing with the many twists and turns of the plot philosophically (for the most part) and leaving the reader feeling richer for having known them. The author uses language that is fresh and lively ... and, being set in Australia, occasionally coarse ... but also demonstrates great skill in story-telling. The pace is relentless from start to finish - but not without spaces to catch one's breath and reconsider the way in which one looks at the world.

The culture shock between the Anglo-Saxon world and the Muslim world is examined in this first-person account of a young Australian woman who accompanies her husband back to his village in a valley in Jordan. This autobiography--which also functions as a novel, poetic prose, and travel literature--is a sensitive exploration of family, expatriation, affiliation, and the complexities of human relationships. The author tells of her experiences without falling into the trap of denigration, stereotypes, idealization, or exotic Orientalism.
"El choque cultural entre el mundo anglosajon y el mundo musulman se examina en esta narracion en primera persona de una joven australiana que acompana a su marido de regreso a su pueblo en un valle del Jordan. Esta autobiografia--que tambien funciona como una novela, prosa poetica y literatura de viajes--es una exploracion sensible de la familia, la expatriacion, la afiliacion y las complejidades de las relaciones humanas. La autora cuenta su experiencia sin caer en la trampa de la denigracion, el estereotipo, la idealizacion o el orientalismo exotico."