Penny Matthews has written more than thirty books for children, as well as books on subjects as diverse as Australian colonial cookery and the novels of Thomas Hardy. Country life has often featured in her work, most notably in A Year on Our Farm, the Children's Book Council of Australia's 2003 Book of the Year: Early Childhood. Her young adult novel A Girl Like Me, based on her research into the murder of a teenage girl in rural South Australia in 1902, won the 2011 Davitt Award for Children's and Young Adult Literature.
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'The description of military service in the RAAF during WWII is a thoughtful portrayal of the situation that most airmen found themselves in … This biography is an easy read with the desire of the author to find the detail, intimate and otherwise, very obvious as she traces the life of this her family hero.' - Alan Lyons, No. 22 Squadron