Why a Booktrail?
1941: What if all you needed to do to find home, was leave?
Under The Golden Sun
What you need to know before your trail
Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia. All expenses as well as passage covered.
Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia.
Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a fresh start. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement: the war, those treacherous seas, her family, her fiancé… but she cannot help herself. Within weeks, she is boarding an enormous convoy, already too attached to five-year-old Walter Lucknow.
But rural Queensland, and the cattle station home of Walter’s parents, is not as either of them were told to expect. Rose cannot leave this little boy she’s grown to love until he is happy, and she knows the key to this is Walter’s wounded fighter pilot uncle Max. But how will she ever part with Walter? And what if he isn’t the only reason she wants to stay?
Locations
Reset- Australia - QLD - Brisbane
- A: Port of Brisbane
- B: Tamborine Mountain
- C: Kalbar "Lucknow Ranch"
Travel Guide
Sail away under the Golden sun to Australia
The novel might start at a hotel, the Goring hotel in Victoria, London but we are soon transported to Australia via the docks at Liverpool. Rose in the novel sails from here to take her new charge Walter to his new home his distant family in Australia.
They arrive at the port in Brisbane. The ranch is (fictional) Lucknow and some 30 miles south of Brisbane. The land is evoked with the heat and barren land playing a major role. They arrive at this ranch in the middle of nowhere and there are just a few sheds and an outhouse. Nothing seems to be inhabitable. In fact they are not welcomed at all, and far away from any kind of civil person or civilisation.
Themes of racism and family dynamics are examined here. At the heart is a lonely and abandoned little boy however going to a family on the other side of the world who he has never known. Walter’s father was an Aborigine man, and this causes dramas and trouble from the start.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: Under the Golden Sun
Destination : Queensland Author/Guide: Jenny Ashcroft Departure Time: 1940s
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