Better than Nothing

This engaging yet powerful memoir breaks the boundary between popular and scholarly accounts of Indigenous life in a remote Outback region in Western Australia. This is the story of a former nun who was guided by a spiritual quest to help the poorest and most neglected people in her country, Australia. For 15 incredible years (1981-1996) , she lived and worked as a remote-area community nurse in an Indigenous community in the Heart of the Pilbara. In recalling a variety of her experiences, "Phil