John Hickman

Living Upside Down (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Inspired by a real family's adventures, LIVING UPSIDE DOWN is an interesting, funny, and entertaining tale about Sue and Roger who are contemplating a move Down Under!

Set in the latter days of the White Australia Policy, when true blue Aussies are suspicious of 'ten pound poms' and anyone who whinges or drinks tea, rather than coffee - this is an inspirational, yet laugh-out-loud story of one small family's triumph over unbelievable odds, hilarity, and happiness.

At the heart is a tale of poms attempting to resolve family conflicts by migrating with their two small children from England to the great southern land as 'ten pound poms' in 1971 and becoming 'fair dinkum Aussies'. Their family conflicts of course follow them.

From their first encounter with Australia House, surviving a homicidal charter flight to Australia, to an immigration hostel, and the desperation of job seeking in a foreign country, Roger wallows in his now inherited Aussie witticism.

Buckle up for a bittersweet roller-coaster ride as the fun and games continue after they settle into their new 'home among the gum trees' interrupted by a three year secondment to the Smolfala Archipelago.

They take up barbequing, fishing and crabbing with their new Aussie mates, as well as wrestling with the complexities of the 'Aussie Strine'.

In the face of diversity, they press on meeting a diverse range of characters. How they cope with these considerable challenges of promotion, demotion, company fraud, drug peddling and death is told with a self-deprecating humour.

We leave our characters at another set of crossroads in 1985, when...well, that's another story!

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Hickman
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780463942567
• Artikelnr.: 53905286

Autorenporträt

John Hickman was born in the UK at the end of WWII. He grew up in the shadow of his war hero father, Bill.
Attending numerous schools due to the family moving for Bill's work, John learned quickly to enjoy the most of the moment, and to not take life too seriously. His books are a glimpse into his world and the imagination that has grown from those life experiences.
After specialising in global pest control, fumigation, and timber preservation, John and his family diversified into farming Javan Rusa deer, in the South Burnett.
After retirement in 2003 and unable to play golf, he discovered a latent passion for writing.
John's first book 'Reluctant Hero' is about his Dad, Bill, who survived as a Lancaster bomber pilot in WW2.
John's second book 'Tripping Over' depicts the humorous side of life in post war England.
It provides a comic foil to his 'Reluctant Hero' reminiscent of a true life 'Diary Of A Wimpish Kid' during the 1950s and 1960s.
'Sex, Lies & Crazy People' is the follow on from 'Tripping Over'.
John tells the Bittersweet true story about his family's involvement in the Harewood Hotel, Royal Tunbridge Wells, Kent in England during the 1960s interspersed with self-deprecating reminisces. Best described as a true life Fawlty Towers but without Basil.
Unlike Fawlty Towers John's are all true stories.
'Living Upside Down' is John's debut novel to feature the adventures of Sue and Roger, after writing three true stories this novel was inspired in part by the author's thirty-five years of experience in the global pest control industry, life in the Archipelago, and migrating as ten pound poms.
Given the gift of LIFE - other books may follow about how not to run a Deer farm, and after retirement his life at the pointy end of the queue in a Happy Valley resort.