TOMORROW, WHEN THE WAR BEGAN

The first book in the bestselling Australian series, The Tomorrow Series

by JOHN MARSDEN

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New softcover book, 296 pages. First published 1993, this ABC TV series tie-in edition published 2016

In Tomorrow When the War Began, Ellie Lynton and her friends Homer Yannos, Lee, Kevin Holmes, Corrie Mackenzie, Robyn Mathers, and Fi (Fiona) Maxwell leave home one quiet morning, wave goodbye to their parents, and head up into the hills to camp out for a while; seven teenagers filling in time during summer school holidays. The world is about to change forever. Their lives will never be the same again.

Would you fight? Would you give up everything? Would you sacrifice even life itself? Tomorrow, When the War Began asks the biggest questions you will ever have to answer.

The 7 books in the series are

1. Tomorrow When the War Began

2. The Dead of the Night

3. The Third Day, the Frost

4. Darkness, Be My Friend

5. Burning for Revenge

6. The Night is for Hunting

7. The Other Side of Dawn

Tomorrow, When The War Began and its subsequent sequels are one of the most popular and critically-acclaimed series of novels aimed at young readers in Australian literature history. It has sold between 2 and 3 million copies in Australia alone and has been translated into five languages, including Swedish, where the series has sold over 115 000 copies.

About the author

John Marsden was born in Melbourne in 1950, the third of four children. His early childhood was spent in rural Australia, moving first to Kyneton in Victoria, then to Devonport in Tasmania. At the age of ten, Marsden's family moved to Sydney and he enrolled at The King's School, Parramatta, which was renowned for its overbearing military style of education. Upon completion of his high schooling, Marsden began a Law/Arts degree at the University of Sydney, and worked at a mortuary, in a sideshow and as a security guard, before finally becoming an English teacher.

He taught for nine years at Geelong Grammar School, and became Head of English at the school's Timbertop campus. In 1982, he was arrested while on the blockade attempting to stop construction of the Franklin Dam. As all the prisons in the region were full due to the number of people arrested, Marsden was placed in the high-security Risdon Prison for a night. He later wrote that he used the experience to help him write scenes in Letters From The Inside and parts of the Tomorrow series.

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Tomorrow, When the War Began by John Marsden