A Long Way from Misery

Born in 1926 Jack lived in a different time but the way he sees it they were better days. He loved his childhood growing up with his many siblings on a farm called Misery and retells it with delight.A Long Way from Misery takes you on a rollicking journey through the Australia of yesteryear with Jack Turner the larrikin shearer as he rescues his brother from being drowned by a kangaroo rides a wild steer through the house and leaps off a moving train. But these misadventures are nothing compared to his mother wielding a carving knife.