My father and grandmother had passed away and I was fascinated by their burial sites, the smell of the earth, the way the moonlight fell on the trees.
[5] Brash wrote plays for stage and radio in a combination of English, Tok Pisin, and Hiri Motu, satirically dealing with conflicts between urban and rural people during the modernization of the country.
[6][7] Her Which Way, Big Man?, first performed in 1976 by the National Theatre Company, depicts a pretentious public official and his wife giving a party to celebrate his promotion, but after he is accused of corruption it ends in a drunken brawl.
[8] In 1966, she married Elton Thomas Brash OBE, an Australian who was vice-chancellor of the University of Papua New Guinea and international aid consultant.
[5] She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2007 Birthday Honours "for services to the arts and education"[11] and appointed Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George (CMG) in the 2018 Birthday Honours "for service to the community through active promotion of local culture and heritage in her roles as author, playwright, and poet".