In 1946, in the northern Australian fishing town of Broome, Hart Penrose remembers. He remembers his parents his silent English mother and bluff Australian father. He remembers the storm that tore open is leg, and his sister Alice, whose exuberance and strength brought him out of despair. He remembers the racism and hatred that roiled Broome in the days before WW2, the unwarranted suspicions of the native Japanese that pulled the town apart. Most of all, he remembers Misty Sennosuke, the warm and beautiful girl next door, the girl he loved, the one he betrayed.
- ISBN: 9780439369152
- Author: Disher, Garry
- Published: 2002, Arthur A. Levine Books
- Themes: Difficult decisions, Friendship, Prejudice and racism, romance, World War II
- Descriptors: Australia, Historical Fiction, Young Adult (ages 14-18)
- No. of pages: 157