'Guilty as charged.
'The words still echo in her head as she lines up for her mug shots. Dani Sutherland has become Prisoner No. 2549971.
'Three years in jail! No one in Summer Bay can believe it - certainly not the Sutherland family. But shock is not going to get Dani out of jail. The family needs to organise an appeal and find the mysterious witness - the only person who could back up Dani's story. Everyone is determined to help, even Justice Morag Bellingham!
'Meanwhile Dani is a world away from her family. She's contending with vulnerable Georgie, 'Matilda the Hun' (the screw with a heart) and top dog of the prisoners, 'the Guv'.
'On the inside, Dani has to watch her back. Trouble is just one footstep behind her.' (Publication summary)
Home and Away
Alan Bateman
,
Seven Network
(publisher),
1988
Australia
:
Seven Network
,
1988-
Z1367287
1988
series - publisher
film/TV
Home and Away is a television serial created by Alan Bateman and produced by the Seven Network. The idea for the series came to Bateman (then head of drama at Seven) after he stopped to buy ice-creams in a small country town in southern NSW. While chatting to some locals, he learned that the town was unhappy about plans to build a home for foster kids from the city. At that time, Channel Seven was still smarting from its decision to let Neighbours go to the Ten Network, where it had become hugely popular, and was looking to create another series to rival its success. Bateman saw in the idea that became Home and Away the potential for plenty of storylines and conflict by having streetwise city kids being relocated to a small regional environment,
In the beginning, the series focused on Pippa and Tom Fletcher, who, being unable to have children of their own, decide to become foster parents. When Tom is retrenched from his city job, the couple buy the rundown Summer Bay Caravan Park and move there with their five foster children. Soon after arriving, they also take in troublesome Bobby Simpson.
The series debuted in January 1988 with an hour-long telemovie. Although this rated well, the series itself took some while to develop an audience. Having learned their lesson from the Neighbours debacle, Network Seven gave its new show time, and its ratings gradually increased. As with Neighbours, the Home and Away series and performers became very popular in the United Kingdom.
Dani on Trial
Sydney
:
Pan Macmillan Australia
,
2004
Z1160991
2004
single work
novel
young adult
'It's everyone's worst nightmare. And Dani Sutherland is living it - every single day. Summer Bay is abuzz with the news. The trial date has been set. Dani Sutherland will be charged with the attempted murder of Kane Phillips - the man who basically ruined her life and has claimed the love of her sister, Kirsty - the man she nearly killed on that treacherous night. Was it an accident? Justice Morag Bellingham is determined to give Dani a fair trial. But as the trial progresses, Dani realises that in a certain light the truth can cast a strange shadow. Who or what can she really trust? Kirsty? Her lawyer? Justice? All she can do now is wait. Wait for the jury. Wait for the verdict that will change her life. Forever.' (Publication summary)
