Love and loss across decades and continents

‘Desire Lines’ by Felicity Volk explores the love, relationship and enduring bonds of its protagonists, while also addressing concerns of environmental diplomacy and celebrating feminism.

The novel ‘Desire Lines’, written by the current Australian ambassador to Nepal, Felicity Volk, is a spaghetti bowl of several desire lines crisscrossing multiple themes of love, relationship, emotional gratification, career and, of course, life in its entirety. The plot is knitted over at least two-thirds of a century, beginning in the early 1950s, covering an equally vast geography spanning Australia through Asia to the Arctic Circle, the cold ice caves of Norway to the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.