This is a remarkable book, presented through a collage of artwork by Anangu artists, contemporary photographs and a narrative story interspersed with eyewitness accounts. So much more than the story of Maralinga and the testing of atomic weapons here between 1953 and 1957 – almost 100 kilotons of explosives were dropped in three series of tests – it is the story of the Anangu people and their way of life both before and after white invasion.

It shows the way the desert people became dependent and then caught up in our squabbles and sometimes quite incongruous plans and of how little the authorities understood the devastating effect of their decisions. As well as being a must for school libraries it is a book for families really, not just children, despite the picture book presentation. It is such an absorbing read about a piece of our shared history seen from an unfamiliar perspective.