'My tale begins in Sydney town, that queasy little den of commerce balancing in dramatic arabesque on our eastern seaboard.I tell the story of Jane Hardacre. Me. A piece of unpleasantness stuck to the corporate boot'...Jane Hardacre, saga writer, wants to write a great novel. Her publisher, Delphine, doyenne of daiquiris and late afternoon crayfish lunches, has other ideas .....