Hi all. Got the book. Read it straightaway. Then went back through and skimmed my favourite stories again, just to set them in my mind. And this left me with a feeling of “yep - that must be what it’s REALLY like…” to be an opal miner. Most other things I’ve read were more about searching for, then finding (or not) a good pocket. 

This is a collection of anecdotes about the realities of day-to-day living on the fields. Things other authors I’ve read may have included here and there, but hadn’t focused on in quite the same way. And other things no one else I’ve read has ever thought to mention. And then seeing some recipes from folks whose names you can find on maps of the fields adds even more to the sense that this book is indeed the real thing.

Kudos “Nell”…!