David Evans, a middle-aged, conservative Manager-Editor of a prominent Melbourne newspaper group is confronted with his own failing as a responsible citizen by a personal tragedy. He searches for a new identity through a swirl of contemporary life, of people, of ideals - right down to the very pit of despair. He must face the reactions of his family, his friends and apologists, the women in his life - this all part of his one-man crusade to find a worthy cause and having found it, stir the apathetic masses to action. Set in 1967, the them is a very worthy one of world peace at a moment in history when nuclear annihilation seemed imminent. Prichard's last book, published at the age of 83. https://cosmiccauldronbooks.com.au/p/coonardoo-katharine-susannah-prichard/