Tom Price

About the Book

The plot of the story is amusing. The dialogue is realistic. The plot is strategically peppered with explanations of the geographical, geological, socio-economic reality, ethnic composition of the population, socio-political situation of the times, the exciting sexual life of the young couples and the explanations of the technology and workings of the mine within the narrative. The author describes in minute and vivid details her encounters with the local fauna and includes descriptions of the local flora. Some photos have been included to illustrate and authenticate the autobiographical work. The author’s perceptions of her relationship with the “heroine” of the story are a faithful description of her character and vicissitudes. Furthermore, the author has attempted to render the realities of the mining town life, ethos and features tangible to the reader’s mind.

About the Author

The Author, Viviana Huwald, has a cosmopolitan background. She has found the north west of Western Australia a land of discovery in both ways as landscape and as the cultural mix of its inhabitants. She is a Post-Graduate Retired Secondary Teacher and has spent the time writing to portray through her eyes and speculative mind what she has experienced in the never-never of the Australian Continent. Viviana Huwald with her son and husband went back for another period in the iron ore mining town of Tom Price thus a sequel may follow this introductory book.