This is a book about storytelling and reading and Hilary McPhee's work with writers. It is a personal reflection, autobiographical in the sense that it draws on the author's life and some of the people in it. Laced with anecdotes and anonymous case studies, to "illustrate" the text, it is written for those who are interested in the way storytelling and wordsmithing and the dissemination of writing is changing with new technologies.