Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd, 2001
A man returns home to his wife & family in the small NSW coastal fishing village of Tea-tree Passage from WW1 carrying more scars on the inside than out. The first part of the novel details the gradual and inevitable downslide of the man’s marriage, through the post-war boom years of the 1920s, then the Depression years of the ’30s. His wife and children return to Tea-tree Passage while he becomes a vagrant. Each child deals with their own scarred upbringing against the backdrop of another looming world war. The characters find both turmoil and solace in their relationships & life events but Tea-tree Passage remains a tranquil sanctuary for the magnetic yet authentically flawed characters in this story.
Where did you grow up? Were you a city or a country kid?
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