Troop Train

<p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>It's February 1942 and the Second World War is raging.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Japanese planes are bombing Darwin Australia fears an invasion and the train track leads straight through the desert to Adelaide. Fourteen-year-old Rosemary Lister begins a diary to share the upheavals and tensions of her new life in the country storing memories for her father missing in Singapore.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>Nearly four years later after war's end she has learnt of love and grief and her book is full - but one troop train has yet to arrive.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(88 89 91 1)>This moving and uplifting family saga was inspired by the stories of those who lived through the war in the Adelaide Hills. It is based on well-known author Elizabeth Hutchins' careful research studying newspaper articles books memoirs and historical collections - and talking to those who were there.</span></p>