{"product_id":"2026200015640-secondhand-the-road-to-gundagai","title":"The Road To Gundagai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Tanning and foxing\u003cbr\u003eMarkings: Previous owner\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat does it mean to grow up between two worlds — to be shaped equally by the fog of London and the blazing sun of Australia? The Road to Gundagai is Graham McInnes's warmly rendered memoir of a childhood lived across continents, chronicling his early years as the son of a prominent English mother and his eventual transplantation to Australia, a land both alien and intoxicating in its raw, sprawling vitality. With sharp wit and an observant eye, McInnes maps the emotional and geographical distances of a boyhood caught between the rigid social codes of 1920s England and the sun-drenched, irreverent freedom of Melbourne's suburban streets.\n\nMcInnes writes with the precision of a memoirist who understands that the truest stories are found in the smallest details — a schoolyard slight, a Sunday roast, the smell of eucalyptus on a summer afternoon. The Road to Gundagai stands as a quietly significant work in Australian literary autobiography, illuminating themes of identity, belonging, and cultural dislocation with a gentle but penetrating intelligence. The son of the celebrated novelist Angela Thirkell, McInnes inherited her gift for social observation, deploying it here to paint a portrait of a young man perpetually navigating the hyphen between British and Australian identity — and leaving the reader to wonder which road, in the end, he truly chose.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203260719323,"sku":"2026200015640-SECONDHAND","price":10.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/50d5dbdc-f3f9-42c0-80b4-d87ba462b0aa.png?v=1788146709","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015640-secondhand-the-road-to-gundagai","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}