Gaijin Live Next Door

On a wing and a prayer, and with just a couple of backpacks containing all their worldly possessions, two young Aussies and their nine-month-old baby moved halfway round the world to find their fortunes in Japan. But as well as the funds to continue their travels, they found a new way of life and a deep love for their adopted home. 

This is a warts-and-all memoir of a daring adventure, from a disheartening arrival at Narita airport, to their own little home in the suburbs of Tokyo and their emotional departure 8 years later. Gaijin Live Next Door is the enthralling tale of the highs and the lows, the laughs and the sorrows of life in the Land of the Rising Sun through the eyes of a young expat mother raising her family in a foreign culture.