Tom David Penna

Burrabooka OUTBACK Australia Tom David Penna

There needs to be a base - a hometown - a place to return to. Burrabooka, a tiny forgotten outback railway siding is still home to those who stayed. The siding boasts apparent affluence - where does the cash come from to do that?Ambitious business-savvy 26 year-old Jared Dalmazzo is feuding with his father, a long-time friend of the Burrabooka community. Jared is inner city born and raised and his father insisted that he go and help upgrade a little, backwash, rural community into the modern business world. Booka 45ks introduces life in today's rural Australia - it is the base and the home for the stories yet to come. Jared unearths secrets and lives are changed from his visit. But as the series moves into books 2, 3, 4, 5 and beyond at times Burrabooka becomes a distant dot on a road map - a faraway place and a sanctuary with its simple life and existence to be dreamt of. But for now Booka is it! If you have country in your DNA you will relate to the smorgasbord of images that emerge. If outback and rural Australia is foreign to you - I trust these stories will provide easy to read and entertaining insight into that life - the life of True Blue Australia.