Dandelion Wishes: The Untold Story of Coral Maxwell-King

For nine-year-old Coral, life revolves around her family. Dad says finding the old boarding house in Fitzroy is fortuitous, given war is just around the corner. Coral doesn't know what that word means, only that they're together.

But Melbourne in 1940 is anything but predictable, and Coral and her brothers find themselves in the care of the Children's Welfare Department.

Separated from her family and classified as a ward of the state, Coral comes of age...