Tomorrow When the War Began
Essay title: Tomorrow When the War Began
The Tomorrow series is a series of invasion novels written by Australian author John Marsden, detailing a high-intensity invasion and occupation of Australia by a foreign power. The novels are told in first person perspective by the main character, a teenage girl named Ellie Linton, who is part of a small band of teenagers waging a guerilla war on the enemy garrison in their fictional home town of Wirrawee. The name of the series is derived from the title of the first book, Tomorrow, When The War Began.
The series consists of seven books, published from 1994 to 1999 [1] by Pan Macmillan and has been reprinted sixteen times. A follow up series entitled the “Ellie Chronicles” began publication in 2003 [2] and was completed in 2006. It deals with the aftermath of the war and Ellies attempts to regain a normal level of functioning in the face of the psychological damage sustained during the war.
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