Imagine words are currents in the sea and you are a boat. This is what it is like to read the novel, ‘Tomorrow when the war began’. The words send you adrift into another world, with such suspense, sadness and exhilarating action, John Marsden has created a masterpiece.
John Marsden’s novel ‘Tomorrow when the war began’ is a must read book. It takes the reader on a shocking and exhilarating journey through the invasion of Wirrawee, a small coastal town in New South Wales, Australia, where 7 teenagers are hiding out in the bush among their town which is hosting a foreign army and a war they know nothing of. However this is not why it is such a magnificent book. It’s John Marsden’s superb way of utilising language features and text