The period drama follows Brits who took up the government's offer to move to Australia for just £10 after the Second World War.
) and Terry Roberts . Terry had been a prisoner of war in Dresden when it was bombed into oblivion. He had since got a reasonable job as a builder but suffered from what we’d now recognise as post-traumatic stress and struggled to stay off the booze.
It was after yet another drinking binge that he and his wife decided that Australia offered their best hope of putting the past to rest. Their teenage son Peter was up for it. Their slightly older daughter Pattie wasn’t quite so enthusiastic. Then there was Kate , a nurse. We were initially led to believe she would be travelling with her fiancé, but she actually turned up alone. “He changed his mind. Couldn’t face leaving England,” she told the official in the port office in Sydney. She sounded less than convincing.
On arrival, after their six and a half week voyage, the new arrivals were still enthusiastic. But they were less than thrilled when they reached their new homes. They were expecting houses but were given cramped, shabby, stiflingly hot Nissen huts in which cockroaches and spiders strolled around as if they owned the place. There were outside toilets, disgusting and fly-infested.
Racism was rife and the Brits soon learnt that the continent’s indigenous people are treated appallingly. Annie was horrified to see an Aboriginal shopper sent to the back of the queue in a store. Meanwhile she was starting to tire of putting the needs of her family before her own. Terry didn’t want her to get a job but might she keep secrets from him?
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