The Passage of Love

The Passage of Love is Miller’s own story brilliantly cast in the mould of fiction.

Arriving destitute in Melbourne in the late fifties, Robert Crofts conceives the ambition to become a writer. He soon meets the beautiful, rich, well-educated Lena Soren. She falls in love at once with this handsome young stockman from North Queensland, a man from an exotic world that is unknown to her. The intimacies of the deeply troubled relationship between them, Robert’s obsession with his dream of becoming a writer and Lena’s struggle to free herself from the inhibiting bonds of her strict middle-class upbringing, lie at the centre of this powerful story of the dread and the bliss of youthful love.

Filled with wry humour, incisive observation and rare wisdom, Miller brilliantly solves the challenge of merging memoir and the novel. His depiction of Robert and Lena’s relationship, and his insights into the unknowability of even our most intimate partners, leaves nothing but truth on the page. The lives of husband and wife are laid bare in their passionate struggle to engage with their individual destinies.