Clean Straw for Nothing and a Cartload of Clay

"Clean Straw for Nothing traces the journey of successful war correspondent and journalist David Meredith as he abandons his career to live in exile on a Greek island with his beautiful wife Cressida. Johnston focuses on the developing relationship within the marriage and David emerges as a complex and reflective character, unable to find the freedom and answers he craves." "A Cartload of Clay brings David back to Sydney where he rediscovers his deep affection for his native land after having been so long in exile. It is an affection, however, which encompasses the country's deep faults and failings as well as its virtues, and he reflects that the meaning of life is the journey, not a prize to be given at the end."--Back cover.