Arriving At Night

'. . . there is no one I could confide in. Well, that's an icy truth to stumble over in the middle of the night, especially when the person you are going to marry lies sleeping beside you.'

Holidaying in an old beach shack on the NSW north coast with friends, Joachim contemplates the awful thing that she has done. Should she tell someone . . . the police, her boyfriend, or perhaps Vincent? But surely they would be too shocked that someone as quiet as she, a woman so unassuming and gentle would be capable of an act so cruel. She can only see one way out . . .

Entwined within this intense domestic drama is a much bigger issue - every day Joachim reads from the biography of Albert Speer (Hitler's architect). Here she finds a man who wrestled with his guilt in the face of all-encompassing evil. Joachim is forced to acknowledge that perhaps it is true that evil lives within us all.

'Arriving At Night' shifts and shimmers from the depths of Joachim's shadows to the delightful coastal landscape of the novel's setting.