This new work of fiction by one of
Australia's most highly regarded authors focuses on the importance of trust, and
the possibility of betrayal, in storytelling as in life. It tests the relationship
established between author and reader, and on occasions of intimacy, between
child and parent, boyfriend and girlfriend, husband and wife. Murnane's fiction
is woven from images, and the feelings associated with them, and the images that
flit through A Million Windows like
butterflies - the reflections of the setting sun like spots of golden oil, the
houses of two or perhaps three storeys, the procession of dark-haired females, the
clearing in the forest, the colours indigo and silver-grey, the death of a
young woman who had leaped into a well - build to an emotional crescendo that
is all the more powerful for the intricacy of their patterning.