A Time and Place

About the Book

This is the heart-wrenching love story of a young couple caught up in a plot aided by the Royal Ulster Constabulary, which cruelly tore them apart. Raw emotion is traced in and out of their separated existences and discloses their enduring love, and how, though lost to each other, neither would let go of their astounding love. This book has its beginning in Northern Ireland and moves to the vast, dusty desert region of the Pilbara in north-western Australia. It is set in the early 1960s when this region was part of the ‘last frontier’ in its remoteness, danger, and grandeur

About the Author

Lainey and family have lived in the beautiful outback of South Australia, North Western Australia, Southern Australia and Queensland. Outback living teaches resilience and resilience learned, with close family’s care and faith, brought Lainey through cancer, surgery and treatment throughout 1999. "Quality of life, not quantity,” my brilliant surgeon said, after scraping a 3 centimetre, aggressive tumour, from my chest wall." Radiotherapy, minimal chemotherapy; I was too weak to take another dose and then clinical depression; lymphoedema; intermittent fears; soul-searching, family breakup followed. My wonderful close family, lived through the horrific cancer trauma also; together we made it!; A TIME and PLACE, has taken the writing down of some of our exciting experiences in North Western Australia; a wonderful backdrop to my novel and the recounting of a love that is faithful, was easily writable, from my very blessed experiences.