All That Swagger

This is the gripping saga of how Danny Delacey, the 18-year-old Protestant son of a university teacher, convinces his Catholic girlfriend, Johanna Cooley, the 19-year-old daughter of wealthy farmers, to run away with him to Australia and how they and their lineage succeed in colonising the southern highlands of New South Wales. It is a story that does not obscure the hardships that mirrored Australia at the time, the harsh living conditions and the dangers they faced. Danny is respectful of Aboriginal people and the ideas of others, Johanna is torn between passionate love for her husband and Catholic guilt for abandoning her Irish family...