"Australia" . . . . . . . . . . . "Then a chance encounter with violence frightens, Bernie into taking lodgers, and two very different men enter her life, to change it forever." . "Bernie Molloy had returned to her home town in the outback after years of reckless, abandoned living. Alone in her parents' old and neglected bungalow, with an evening job at the roughest bar in town, she wrestles with the demons of her past - and prepares to turn 40." . . . . "Fiction" . . "The invasion of sand" . .