Glass Half Full: Our Australian Adventure (Sarah Jane's Travel Memoirs Series Book 1)

Find out what it takes to keep the Glass Half Full, as challenging life events including grief, loss, PTSD and devastating floods, test this expat step-family to their limits.

After enduring divorce and numerous child custody battles, Sarah Jane knew that a fresh start in Australia was their only chance of future happiness and that as a family they were making the right decisions. Living the Australian dream in Alice Springs was everything they hoped for until life-changing events started to test the foundations of this resilient family. Using every ounce of positivity they could muster they struggled on and just as they thought the worst was over Mother Nature intervened and washed away the roots to their new life during the Brisbane floods of 2011. This story lets you experience Australian life with an inspirational woman and her courageous family, as they struggle to survive challenging life events and keep their dreams alive.
Life is never without its challenges, but how many life-changing events can one family endure before they reach breaking point? Find out in this heart wrenching and touching true story.

Here's what readers on Amazon are saying about Glass Half Full: Our Australian adventure.

"An incredibly well-written book, full of emotion, and very descriptive. I feel I have travelled this journey with Sarah and her family."

"Sometimes the author made me feel so close to her situations by her brilliant descriptions that I almost felt I had witnessed it first hand. Very clever writing."
"It is amazing what people can withstand and still move forward. Their youngest was on a great adventure. As life gets in the way of happiness this couple keeps picking themselves up and moving forward. A must read for those intending to take up life in Australia or Tasmania."

"With vivid descriptions of people and places, this riveting story is about a family who leave England for a better life in Australia. They carefully plan each step of their long term goals; to get permanent residency in Australia, become financially secure, and maintain a happy and healthy relationship with their large and scattered family.Glass Half Full, our Australian adventure. Everything goes as planned until a sequence of life-changing events stops them in their tracks, and then mother nature devastates their carefully laid out master plan. An amazing journey of people living life to its fullest. Inspirational!"

Reader feedback is appreciated by all authors. As a result, in late 2014 Glass Half Full underwent a specialist memoir edit, the addition of 47 photographs from our journey and now has a professionally commissioned new book cover. I hope you enjoy the changes.