A Distant Shore

The moving story of a young girls journey from Greece to Australia, and the life she builds - and love she finds - in a sometimes unwelcoming landKaterina arrives in Sydney by ship as a six-year-old in the 1950s, a bewildered newcomer met by her father, whom she barely remembers, and abandoned by her impulsive and flighty mother.- She faces a strange and often hostile new country as she and her father struggle to be accepted.Growing into a beautiful and intelligent young woman, Katerina renames herself Kate and makes the Northern Beaches of Sydney home.- At the age of seventeen, while the Vietnam War rages and protest marches fill Australian streets, she is swept into a passionate love affair.Life for Kate brings joy and tragedy.- Inspired by her own experience as a child, she becomes a legal advocate for displaced persons and is forced to confront questions of life and death, freedom and captivity - choices that will change her life forever . . . A Distant Shore is a poignant and stirring story of our times about courage, justice and enduring love.