Peter Gardiner has written a book about his life and times which he has called It's Been a Quite Life. As soon as you begin reading, you discover life was anything but quiet. He was a graziers' son who was expected to follow in his fathers footsteps, but he had little taste for things agricultural. Early seduction at age thirteen by a young woman of seventeen who had been employed to look after him while his mum and dad had a holiday was to put a permanent smile on his face that's never departed. Her name was Zeta and she looked after his sexual education very well for a few glorious weeks. Coitus interruptus occurred when his parents unexpectedly returned. Peter later succeeded in getting removed from a very high class boarding school for doing something awfully naughty. Late teens found him wife-swapping or, more correctly, girlfriend-swapping, which seemed like the friendly thing to do. He went to Australia as a sort of black sheep export. He rummaged around Australia doing just about anything to make a buck that would sustain his drinking habits which were even then expensive. He picked up some rough talk in the camps peach-picking and on the Snowy River Scheme, and returning home for a holiday, forgot his manners. On his first day back, he asked his mother to pass the F...ing jam, which moved him down the inheritance list a few notches and reinforced the mutual need for him to return to Australia. His three wives were all very resourceful women, each bringing to his life at just the right time the help most needed. Peter made a great success of direct door-to-door sales, a very tough profession to which many are called but few succeed. He started Gardna-Clean carpet cleaning in New Zealand and quickly built a network of over 70 dealers. Too much hanky-panky and booze found him back in Australia with a new wife, Louise, where he reinvented his carpet cleaning empire, this time called Climax Carpet Cleaners; a nice sexy name. This book is a jolly good read about the quite life of Peter Gardiner. Today he is in his late sixties, semi retired but still runs a small mail order business in Lightning Ridge N.S.W. In his spare time, he writes a column in the local newspaper while he waits for a new Zeta to arrive for him to pleasure. John G. Chambers