by Clarke Fountain
synopsis
Living on the island of Tasmania off the coast of Australia in the 1950s, it's hard to be a teenager, knowing that momentous and exciting changes are happening on the mainland. This story is based on an autobiographical novel by C.J. Koch, and explores the relationships of a group of young people whose ruling ambition in life is to get to the mainland, and in particular to Melbourne, where things are livelier. Indeed, once they get there, they find that things are very much livelier than they had expected, and they are soon in over their heads.
