'A compelling saga of friendship love and survival
'They came from the ruins of the war in Europe: Sarah Wiseman, the survivor of a German concentration camp, Michael and Helen Francis, a brother and sister fleeing from the Russians in Budapest, and Neil Latham, the young English soldier who broke the rules to help them all survive. The four arrive in Australia seeking a new start in the lucky country.
'But life in post-war Sydney, amid the gangs and corruption, and in the high country of Australia’s Snowy Mountain Scheme, is hardly an idyllic existence. And the past, left so far behind, threatens to jeopardise all their futures in unexpected and terrifying ways. It seems only a matter of time before buried secrets will be revealed . . .'
Source : author's website
Epigraph: ' A Displaced Person is not one who can choose to go home...such a person loses his or her status. Somehow these people must be provided for, because they sit upon the conscience of the world.'
Sir Raphael Cilento
UNRRA, 1945
