Andrea endured many hardships in her life while traveling around Australia with her lovable rascal of a father. She was taught cunningness, survival, love, gambling, hunting, and fishing, unlike any education you get from sitting in a classroom. Taken out of school at 13, married at 16, and a mother at 17. War and the traumatic birth of her second child only made her stronger. Evacuated to London, she spent two harrowing years trying to return to her beloved Australia. Once back, she fought the biggest battle of her life, saving her children from an evil limited education would not deter her from documenting her life's are her own words, based on her