Riverboy

<p>The coastal town is not named nor is 'the boy' about whom and by whom this story of 1950's and 1960's rural Australia is written.</p><p>Much of the narrative revolves around fishing waters fresh and salt in Victoria's Western District. More than that it is a journey from birth to hormones-haywire</p><p>mid-teens of a lad blessed with good health and sporting ability his interactions with Irish and Scottish born immigrant parents and observing the attitudes and</p><p>characters in a conservative provincial community of that era.</p><p>Contemplated above all perhaps is the boy's ambivalence towards a British ex-serviceman father so contrasting in persona and profession to the dinkum blue-collar Anzac</p><p>dads of his schoolmates and finding his way to finally and fully appreciate this admirable man.</p><p></p>