Seven Seas brings to its readers a splendid first novel by a new author of talent! "Vivid" - "Moving" - "handled with freshness and skill" - these are a few of the words of highest praise critics have given this novel. The Australian Broadcasting Commission reviewed it as "a piece of art, poetically expressed - with arm compassion and the subtle understanding." --back cover. "One could say: it is a group story, for it concerns the people who work in an Australian dye-works factory." -- About the book.