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A sweeping tale of bravery, love and human endurance, with the backdrop of the Snowy Mountains in southern New South Wales. We follow the lives of some of the inhabitants of Cooma, a small town experiencing a boom of migrant workers from the nearby Hydro-Electric scheme. Beautifully told, Judy Nunn weaves an evocative story, telling the lives of local characters and those from further afield, filling us in on their background stories, and how they came to the town.Some characters struggle with prejudice and hypocrisy, but for the most part the migrants manage to integrate quite well. We meet those that have struggled just to exist through WW2, and those with a privileged upbringing that have never known hardship. We laugh, love and breath along with them, as they make a new lives for themselves.I really did enjoy this book, becoming immersed and invested in the characters quite quickly. I'd be reading and look up to find hours had passed. Yet the big problem I had with this book was how several people with interlocking lives in the past would suddenly and independently, unbeknownst to each other, all end up in one small town on the other side of the world. It was just too big a coincidence to me, and I found it slightly annoying. That was the only downfall of this book for me, and I do recommend it to lovers of Australian Historical Fiction.3.5 stars rounded up to 4.