Though Liao was a highly educated and economically independent member of the first post-war generation, she still faced all the inequities of the traditional family structure. With her finely crafted prose she opened a patch of blue sky in which the women of Taiwan could take flight--and also found an outlet for the pent-up emotions in her life.
生於終戰後第一波嬰兒潮，受過高等教育，擁有經濟獨立能力，面對的卻是傳統家庭的種種扭曲失衡，廖輝英透過細膩筆觸，為台灣女性開啟一片自由飛翔的藍天，也為自己生命中的親情愛恨找到救贖的出口。