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The Last of the Bonegilla Girls

✍ Scribed by Victoria Purman


Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers;HQ Fiction
Year
2018
Tongue
English
Weight
207 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN
1489246851

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✦ Synopsis


For readers of The Woolgrower's Companion and The Three Miss Allens... Their friendship transcends nationality and background, but can it overcome the horrors of the past? A post-Second World War story of strong female ties and family, secrets and lies, set in the multicultural Australia of the fifties. The war is over, but their fight for a new life in Australia is about to begin...1954: When sixteen–year–old Hungarian Elizabeta arrives in Australia with her family, she is hoping to escape the hopelessness of life as a refugee in post–war Germany.Her first stop is the Bonegilla Migrant Camp on the banks of the Murray in rural Victoria, a temporary home for thousands of new arrivals, all looking for work and a better life. There, Elizabeta becomes firm friends with the feisty Greek Vasiliki; quiet Italian Iliana; and the adventurous Frances, the daughter of the camp's director.In this vibrant and growing country, the Bonegilla girls rush together towards a life...


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