Sheep-O

<p class=ql-align-center><strong>In the 1960s a Yorkshire teen's escape from abuse leads to a transformative odyssey as he navigates the harsh rugged world of Australian shearing shaping his identity and earning respect stroke by stroke.</strong></p><p><br></p><p>It's the 60's.</p><p><br></p><p>A 15 year-old boy from North Yorkshire has emigrated to Australia on the Big Brother Program. He has left an abusive situation with family teachers etc. Believing that he would have a better life and learn a trade.</p><p><br></p><p>Unbeknownst to him he has jumped from the proverbial frying pan into the fire. After leaving the Training Farm he is sent to his first job in the Bush. Treated like a slave hard work he does have the first opportunity to shear a sheep! As difficult as it was he decides then and there to become a Gun Shearer. A gun shearer he never becomes but a shearer fast and clean enough to make a living in any shed.</p><p><br></p><p>He still a boy lives works and travels with men who because of his attitude towards hard work is given respect. He meets wonderful characters that Dickens himself would have enjoyed meeting.</p><p><br></p><p>Hard working hard drinking foul-mouthed men of the world of shearing. His Yorkshire accent (which he works very hard at getting rid of) is a constant source of ridicule. Finally he sounds like almost any other Aussie!</p>