Doust works deftly: he disturbs us, then he makes us laugh, and with our prim censure destabilised helps us move toward an altogether more complicated, and perhaps more compassionate, attitude.' Kim Scott<br/>It is 1968. All around the world people are marching, protesting, fighting for freedom and free love.<br/>Jack Muir arrives in the islands fresh out of Grammar School: a failure, a virgin, and a reluctant employee of The Colonial Bank of Australia.<br/>Life in the islands is raw, sensuous, real. Here, you may take what you want, especially if you are white. But the veneer of whiteness is a flimsy one, and brutality never far from the surface.<br/><i>To be free, you must set free</i>. So says George Kanluna, future leader of the islands. Yet there is a world of difference between freedom, and those things you unleash in others - and in yourself.<br/>