This book is about newspapers and the power of the press to sway opinion.The main narrative voice is that of W.C., a somewhat hapless war correspondent, posted to Van Diemen's Land to cover the conflict between the Pakana people of litruwita and the British colonisers, in the period between 1814 and 1856 when the Island officially became known as Tasmania.In old age, his only comforts being malt whiskey and his scruffy dog, Bent, W.C. looks back on his long career, and shares with us his myriad of press clippings which contain graphic accounts of the events that unfolded in the early days of the colony.He also tells us his account of living with an Aboriginal clan. In the hope of learning more about the indigenous people of litruwita he unwittingly befriended Rialim, a man of the Moomairremener clan of the Paredarerme (Oyster Bay) Nation and moved into their camp. There he met lowana, a strong, intelligent and captivating woman with whom he fell deeply in love with. Later she was to become a formidable warrior, ready and willing to fight and to kill to protect her family and culture and to defend her clan's country from the British.Lowana was to be forever W.C.'s one and only love. The intensity of their mutual passion and his time spent with the clan affected his whole life, irretrievably, both personally and professionally. He eventually left the clan and resumed his profession, but his contact with the Moomairremener led him to break the cardinal rule of war journalism: he took sides.