Somewhere Around the Corner

Historical fiction for young readers. Barbara meets an old man at a wild demonstration who tells her to walk around the corner and arrive at a better place. The place is 1934, the height of Depression in Australia. Young Jim takes Barbara home to meet his family, where Barbara finds the love, security and peace missing from her life. But will she be forced to return to her own time? Author is winner of the 2000 Children's Book Council Book of the Year for Younger Readers. Her other titles include 'The Soldier on the Hill' and 'Hitler's Daughter'.French, Jackie is the author of 'Somewhere Around the Corner', published 1994 under ISBN 9780207183591 and ISBN 0207183597.