Book Review

A Long Way Home by Saroo Brierley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It’s 1986, Saroo, a five-year-old boy, lives with his elder brother Guddu, his mother and his younger sister in Khandwa, India. At the persistent request from his younger brother, Guddu allows saroo to tag along to work one night. But being only five he gets tired and falls asleep in a compartment of a train which in no time was in motion. This resulted in him being separated from his family. He staggers here and there, wanders the street for many days before a stranger took him to the Police.
He stumbled on one more door and that was the orphanage. In the orphanage, a few months later he meets Sue and John Brierley who are from Hobart, Tasmania. They adopt him and take him to Australia. Saroo begins to search for his family back in India on Google earth. Days pass by in his quest to reunite with his family.

This non-fiction welled up tears in my eye. It pulled strings in my heart at the distraught thought of being separated from your family and more unimaginable when you’re in the mind of five-year-old boy who is oblivious to the dark side of the real world.

Absolutely thrilled to read A long way home.

I give it a five star.


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