Deborah Cassrels

A low three stars. I didn’t like the style. I felt that Cassrels jumped around a lot, sometimes giving information later in a chapter that would have made more sense earlier. She didn’t seem sure if the book was all about Indonesia or if it was about her, so there were bits about her breast cancer, family illnesses, and romantic interludes that didn’t fit, or were mentioned briefly but intensely and then never acknowledged again. I wondered if she partly wrote the book to get back at show more her ex.

I did learn a lot about Indonesia, and about the relationship between some Australians and Indonesia, and between the two countries. show less