5for example, Peter Pierce : “‘Hell' is succeeded bv ‘ bliss' but with so little effort ( escape to pristine surroundings seems possible and sufficient) that Cater' s novel becomes a disappointingly mawkish fable in re-integration”, “Finding Their Range: Some Recent Australian Novels,” Meanjin 40 (1981):526.
6also Helen Daniel, Liars: Australian New Norelists ( Ringwood : Penguin, 1988) 165 - 166
7Ken Gelder and Paul Salzman, The New Diversity: Australian Fiction 1970 - 1988(Melbourne: McPhee Gribble, 1988) 124.
