Life’s Shadows continues the melancholy journey begun in Footprints of a Stranger. Barbara Gurney’s poetry expresses others’ hurt with a caring voice and a message of hope. Grieve with ‘The Ticket Home’, overcome fear with ‘Conquering’ and finally, ‘Sing Loudly’.
In the second half of this book, Robin Sinclair has used her imagination to bring to life the stories of some of her pioneer ancestors from the time when Tasmania was Van Diemen’s Land, and ‘the beautiful island at the end of the world’ was also one its most remote and scary places.