When Maureen Helen, reaches her fifties and her children have all left home, she decides to do something a little different.
Spurred on by an adventure in Thailand, she resolves to use her skills to work as a remote area nurse in an isolated Aboriginal settlement in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Faced with the terrible health problems of the community, inadequate equipment and a growing sense that she doesn’t belong, Maureen Helen battles her own crisis of confidence as well as the harshness and hostility of her surroundings as she struggles to adjust to a culture where she is the outsider. Other People’s Country is an elegantly written examination of the unexpected consequences of one woman’s wish to do good.
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