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Title: Walk in My Shoes

Author: Alwyn Evans

Narrator: Kellie Jones

Format: Unabridged

Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-17-07

Publisher: Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Fiction, Contemporary

Publisher's Summary:

After a perilous and terrifying escape from war-torn Afghanistan, Gulnessa and her family find themselves in Australia, a place they know nothing about. They are exhausted and traumatized, but so full of hope. But their struggle isn't over yet.

They are confined in a detention centre for asylum seekers, and forced to prove their refugee status. As days drag into weeks and months, Gulnessa is determined to stay strong. She cannot give up hope for a second chance at life, and the opportunity to build a future in a new land.

Editorial Reviews:

At once harrowing and heartwarming, Walk in My Shoes follows 16-year-old heroine Gulnessa, as her family flees the devastation of war-torn Aghanistan only to find themselves trapped in an Australian detention center for illegal immigrants. Author Alwyn Evans addresses a litany of heady issues - including war, human trafficking, religious persecution, racism, culture shock, and political asylum - while nevertheless rendering Gulnessa as a typical adolescent, fancifully doting on her secret crush or musing over future career goals. Actress Kellie Jones bequeaths Gulnessa a fitting teenage tone, imbuing the young heroine with playful rambunctiousness, naïve insecurity, and dreamy desires for her life ahead. Throughout the proceedings, Jones proves herself a masterful role player, as she delivers delightful accents, dialects, and dialogue sequences.

Critic Reviews:

"This sound recording of the remarkable text is an interesting way to encourage students to visualize the text, and indeed, walk in narrator Gulnessa's shoes. Kellie Jones is to be commended for keeping the quality of the narration at a high standard throughout all eleven discs. Walk in My Shoes is a rather long novel and this Bolinda audio version makes it more accessible to those who would not choose to read such a lengthy novel." (Fiction Focus)

Members Reviews:

Every Australian of reading age should read this book

Walk in my Shoes is about a Pakistani refugee family who arrive in Australia after going through a circuitous, arduous and dangerous journey. When they arrive they are full of hope and believe they are finally safe. However, the family is immediately placed in a detention centre out in the desert where they linger for almost two years before being released. The loss of hope, the anguish and pain this family suffers while they try to prove to the Australian government that they are indeed refugees is excrutiating.

The reading age of this book is 9-12 years but is suitable for all age groups and I would recommend it as essential reading not only for school children but for all Australians. It is difficult not to feel deep compassion for those people who have suffered so terribly in their own countries and have come to Australia (even if they have by-passed the legal channels).

It gives another perspective to the refugee debate quite differnet from the government's stance and is likely to produce a public outcry about the way refugees are being treated in Australia. Indeed as the protagonist of the novel points out - why if we weren't refugees would we come to Australia on such dangerous unseaworthy boats? Terrorists are never going to travel this way.

Thought provoking

I bought this book because my granddaughter was reading it for school. (She is 12) and I wanted to

see what the kids were reading and whether it would help them develop more empathy.