Decade of Dilemma and Despair

Book 1 Walking in Jessica's Shoes

"Decade of Dilemma and Despair," is the first book written so far, in a series of six. The Series is titled "Walking in Jessica's Shoes." Each book takes you on a journey like you probably would never go in real life. Leaving her beloved Scotland, to start a new life in Western Australia, as a migrant child, she encounters a whole new way of life. The brochures her parents had shown her were full color pictures of white sandy beaches, a kangaroo hopping through green bushland and a fat koala sleeping in a gum tree. Full of promises with great opportunities all on offer. Jessica looked forward to happy days ahead when her family settled in W.A. Life changed in many ways. "Decade of Dilemma and Despair," will take you back to the 60's decade. Ten years of dilemma and despair indeed, for Jessica and her family. A young girl whose hopes for a bright new future soon become lost and she yearns to return to Scotland. Forced to make choices and decisions way above her young years. The future in store for Jessica Campbell will unravel in each book covering a decade in her life. Come along with her on this first journey. Walk in her shoes, feel her emotions and wonder at her survival through some incredible times. Each decade will have you marvelling at just how unrealistic her life seems. Everything you read about Jessica Campbell's life did happen as written. All characters are or were real, all given fictional names. Migrants who came to Australia in the 1950's and 1960's helped build the country. Most prospered and became good citizens and active members of the general community. Some families just simply fell on bad times. The Campbell family is one. This series of books depicts Australia as it was then during each decade. A lot of changes take place throughout the six decades and a lot does not change, so much. Each decade sees Jessica involved in whatever is topping the current affairs charts at the time. No matter what the issue of concern may be, chances are you will find her in the middle of each one. Racism is a very large part of Australian life today as it was in 1960. Most discriminated against are the Indigenous Australians, the people who have inhabited this land for thousands of years. No available History Book will detail the massacres, nor the way their waterholes were poisoned and their rations of flour laced with arsenic, killing many more. Then they stole thousands of Indigenous children and babies away from their homes and communities, put them on missions and sent them to white foster homes. Some never found their families again and those who did, bear the deep scars of separation. Jessica Campbell formed lifelong friendships with several Aboriginal children when she attended her first school in W.A. in the suburb of Guildford. As a younger child, she did not see anything to be racist about and did not really see her friendships as being anything different. As her life progresses through the decades she soon discovers the ugly side to Australian racism as she lives it almost every day. Experiencing the same prejudice as the Indigenous people. When it comes to the country's problem with drugs, again, right in the middle is Jessica Campbell. The story is incredible yet true. Her Sicilian sweetheart causing her life to change again, forever. From delinquency to the death of loved ones and everything unreal in between, you will re-live this most not normal life as you travel in her shoes. So sit back and get ready to start the most unusual journey you will ever take.