It’s 1956 and Lina lives in Carlton with her family. She dreams of being a writer, but her strict Italian parents have other ideas. Lina has been awarded a scholarship to a private girls' school and she struggles to fit in with the other students there–to Lina it sometimes feels as if she comes from a different world!
When Lina and some of the other students start a school newspaper, it leads to events Lina would never have imagined. It’s an exciting time in Melbourne, with the Olympic Games being held in the city that year, the first time ever in the Southern Hemisphere! And television has arrived in Australia, with people crowding around department store windows to catch a glimpse of this marvellous new technology.
Lina’s story, told in four dramatic instalments, explores the waves of post-war migration and how Melbourne was a changing place as a result.
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