From McPhee Gribble came many new writers (including Helen Garner, Tim Winton, Drusilla Modjeska), new perspectives on Australian life and history, new stories -- and, fleetingly, the hope that an Australian company could become a fully fledged player in the international publishing industry. Other People's Words is the story of that company, and also the story of a friendship between two women: two strong, 'difficult' women with a unique way of working. Finally, it is also a portrait of a woman who accidentally became a publisher and who believed, perhaps more than anything, in the transforming power of words.