"This is the story of a man who shot his wife's lover and thus created a memory which wrecked his own life. It is a strong and strangely compelling tale full of vivid de-scriptions and graphic pictures. Arnold Dudley loved his wife and killed the man who stole her from him. Hunted by justice, pursued by bitter remorse, he fled to a stretch of beach on the Australian coast and lived in utter loneliness. When almost driven to mad-ness by the solitude, he meets two women, who strive with splendid sacrifice to re build his broken life. They fail; and it is left for fate to provide the great opportunity for expiation." - from the 2007 Wombat edition

"Dudley murders his wife's lover and in escaping, more from himself than from his crime, he trawls to an isolated strip of coast where he lives in such loneliness he nearly goes mad, Two women befriend him–one a widow who sets herself to work the land her husband left her, and who gives Arnold Dudley a job, and the other a younger woman who falls in love with him. Arnold gets a chance to atone for his crime when a ship is wrecked on the coast. He dies trying to save the life of a passenger." – from "The Armchair Detective"

Location: Dongerra, just south of Gerldton, Western Australia