A long way home

One evening, five-year-old Saroo left his poor village home in India to watch his older brother work at the next town's train station.

His life was about to be utterly transformed. Lost and alone on an unfamiliar train, he found himself taken across the country and deposited in a strange city, unable to explain who he was or where he was from.

He'd arrived in Calcutta. After weeks of defying the odds on the city's notoriously dangerous streets, Saroo was taken in by a government agency and, after failed attempts to find his family, was miraculously adopted by an Australian couple, the Brierleys, and taken to start a new life in Hobart.

As an adult, though, he never forgot his Indian roots and kept trying to work out where he came from.

With the advent of Google Earth, his long inquiry began to bear fruit: as the technology improved, he was, against all the odds, able to find what he thought was his home neighbourhood of Ganesh Talai and go in search of his family.

Even more astonishingly, he found them. Here, Saroo Brierley tells the extraordinary story behind this otherwise ordinary 32-year-old Aussie bloke, from the dirt floors of his birth home to the hills of Hobart and back again.

He describes his incredulity at finding his birth mother, his heartbreak at learning of his brother's fate, and that fateful day over a quarter of a century ago.

Battle-weary Nicholas Lawson walked away from his military career leaving unfinished business.

In a coastal backwater, that decision returns to haunt him.

He remembers all too vividly his last lethal assignment in Afghanistan when Ellie's sister, Nina, was shot and killed.

Ellie's been in his dreams ever since, even if she doesn't remember him . . . As a storm rages and floodwaters rise, Ellie struggles to save her community.

But who can she trust? Nick Lawson, the dangerously attractive stranger with secrets, or an old friend who's never let her down?

Praise for Helene Young 'Helene Young is a very accomplished writer, building her romance and suspense with verve and skill.' Sisters In Crime 'Plenty of action, sizzling romance and page-turning suspense' Book'd Out '***** A brilliant novel from an Australian author right at the top of her game.' Good Reads [title and author]history [title and author]history [title and author]history [title and author]history [title and author]history truefalse List propertiesName: :Enter a description for this list : OK Cancel Download Media Files for listTo download files for all items in your list, select the file type and then click "download".

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