This new work of fiction by one ofAustralia's most highly regarded authors focuses on the importance of trust, andthe possibility of betrayal, in storytelling as in life. It tests the relationshipestablished between author and reader, and on occasions of intimacy, betweenchild and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fictionis woven from images, and the feelings associated with them, and the images thatflit through A Million Windows likebutterflies the reflections of the setting sun like spots of golden oil, thehouses of two or perhaps three storeys, the procession of dark-haired females, theclearing in the forest, the colours indigo and silver-grey, the death of ayoung woman who had leaped into a well build to an emotional crescendo thatis all the more powerful for the intricacy of their patterning.