It had seemed like an earthly paradise
Only eleven months ago, Olivia Lessing r emembered, she had considered her posting to the Garrison Hospital on Miljura Island a piece of good fortune.
Now she recognized that the Japanese wartime base taken over by the British and Australians was a small, closed world where daily skirmishes with death heightened the personal conflicts.
Or was the disillusion just because her own affair with Commander Hugh Falconer was at a complete standstill!