Interesting book, not the least because I live where some of it is set. Quite beatiful story of a young engineer, his love for an actress and the building of the Goldfields water pipeline that brought water to the parched goldfields at Kalgoorlie just over 100 years ago. Full of odd bits of information. The style didn't quite gell with me, as it is written in vignettes of no more that three pages requiring the reader to place them into the structure of the the story, as if doing a jigsaw. It's an interesting technique but I found it rather distancing. However it's still a really interesting book and worth reading, particularly if you have an interest in Western Australia... ( )