From Wikipedia: Harold Edward James Aldridge is a multi-award winning Australian author and journalist whose World War II despatches were published worldwide and formed the basis of several of his novels, including the prize-winning The Sea Eagle about Australian troops in Crete.
Aldridge was born in White Hills, a suburb of Bendigo, Victoria. By the mid 1920s the Aldridge family had moved to Swan Hill, and many of his Australian stories are based on his life growing up there. Aldridge moved to London in 1938; he currently lives in Battersea, South West London.
The stories that are based on the real living conditions of his hometown of Swan Hill include his 1995 Children's Book Council of Australia book of the year "The True Story of Lilli Stubeck", one of his St Helen series of children's books. He lived in Cairo for many years, writing several books about the Middle East, including "Cairo - Biography of a City" and the novels "The Diplomat" and "Heroes of the Empty View". His 1973 children's novel "A Sporting Proposition" was adapted for the 1975 Disney film "Ride a Wild Pony".
I absolutely LOVED this book as a child. I found it really intriguing and I couldn't put it down! A great book for young readers and adolescence who are fond of horses, animals, farming or if you just love reading! I stayed up late with a torch reading it because I wasn't able to put it down.
Meh... Ja, ok. Boken var verkligen inte dålig, men det var en långsam berättelse där det inte hände mycket över huvud taget. Karaktärerna känns platta, ointressanta och outvecklade. Miljöerna var så vaga att det lika gärna kunde vara den amerikanska södern som Australien. Slutet var inte svårt att gissa sig till och även om jag kan förstå att det finns de som gillar boken, var den definitivt inget för mig.