My favourite writing is literary soap, with lots of dramas and interlocking lives.
"[2] Her idea for the novel came from the time she spent living on Dangar Island in the Hawkesbury River.
[2] Castles incorporates the physical location not only as descriptive content in her novels, but to set the emotional tone of scenes, create tension and move the plot along.
It gives the illusion of independence to the characters by separating them the community, but it also isolates when there are threats or danger.
It is only when they are forced to act, or when in a crisis they need make a decision, that they seem to wake up and take charge of their lives.