Non-Fiction Book /The Wayward Child By Rita Lowther.

*** Read this book first than see how the book comes to life, as we are absolutely ecstatic to pass on that The Wayward Child is being reviewed for a movie*** Its not often that you get the unsullied memories of a child growing up in the Australian countryside during the years of the Second World War published raw and unvarnished over sixty years later. The Wayward Child begins with Ritas country girlhood in Tumut where her father worked as a guard at the open prison farm. It describes the traumatic effects of the Second World War years on her mind and on her family, and the harsh values that informed a generation that was emotionally and intellectually starved. Rita survived with those values. This is a testimony of how difficult it is for precocious children to try to grasp problems that adults have difficulty in grasping themselves a situation not uncommon in the isolated communities of the Australian country. We get these flashes of childs eye views throughout the book, all the more poignant for being written over sixty years later. And the wealth of iconic Australiana (country meals, social settings) should be mined by any producer worth his salt, of an Australian period film. Over all this is the background of the Second World War. It looms over Ritas childhood; it is the trauma she sees as being to blame for hardship that hard work and endurance could not prevent. The propaganda newsreels of the time had her running out of the theatres in a panic that the Japanese were on our doorstep, a constant state of childhood anxiety that voided her of any compassion at an accidental sight of Japanese prisoners during a visit to Sydney, and perhaps affords us a sympathetic glimpse of the roots of One Nation xenophobia. This book is touching, funny, sad and downright hilarious in parts, when reading The Wayward Child you will instantly become a part of this wonderful journey.. To purchase this wonderful book please click on www.ritalowther.com Paperback $16.99 + Poastage , you can also meet the Author Rita Lowther read reviews and sign the guest book. Thank you and please enjoy reading The Wayward Child. Also we would like to give you a chance to Win a copy of this amazing true story simply by Liking Rita Lowther on Facebook.. Just go to http://www.facebook.com/pages/​Rita-Lowther/232138873464486 and click like ( We are absolutely delighted to pass on that The Wayward Child has been Nominated for the Global Ebook awards The book 100% deserves this and a huge congratulations to Rita Lowther for writing such a fabulous book. )