ROOM FOR NIGHT AND DAY

Molly, a well-meaning Australian, arrives one night in a remote mountain town in East Timor with her gift of one thousand second-hand books to start a library for the local children. To her consternation, the household she has been corresponding with does not roll out the welcome she was expecting. Fatima, who runs the household, seems to be fobbing her off with white lies, Albina the matriarch seems vehemently opposed to their guest room being used as a library, cousin Blackie's behaviour is frankly alarming, and the learned Mr Cho is hiding in the roof. Molly agrees to spend her first night in an unsuitable room, but her sleep is interrupted by so many strange comings and goings that she gradually surrenders herself to the unwritten knowledge of her haunted hosts.

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