AustLit

Here is a book packed with incident in which ordinary Australians achieve greatness. This deeply moving story is set in the early fifties in an American-owned motor car factory, though the action also reaches out to embrace many other important aspects of Australian life. In it we meet Molly Bromley, warm, vibrant, stimulating, who believes in people, not ideologies; Jack her husband, timid, yet with a strength of his own, who meets tragedy at work; Mick, her young son, a dreamer, always reaching out for the unattainable, full of conflicts, promising much but not given much time to find himself; Reg, tough, confident, with a blueprint for marriage until he kills a man road-testing a company car and life takes a hand in the plan; and the boss- an ordinary man driven by the boss above him, who in turn is driven by uncontrollable forces beyond the waters. This is a book about life and its realities, about people with different political convictions and those without politics. Through it runs the spirit of a people with a deep-seated sense of justice and fair play; a kind people; above all, a fighting people who, like our native kangaroo, will not be saddled. (Publisher's Blurb)