A city girl with dreams of the country, eighteen-year-old Terry Augustus was training to be a nurse at St Vincent's Hospital when she met John Underwood, a young, born-and-bred cattleman. Flat on his back in Ward 3, nursing a serious spinal injury sustained while mustering cattle, John was itching to get home. And home he finally went, to his family's cattle station, Inverway, up in the Northern Territory. He promised Terry's he'd write. A postcard arrived a week later.
After five long years of writing letters, John and Terry married and moved to their new home - a tent and a newly drilled bore in the middle of nowhere. Their love for each other was only matched by their love for this 'last frontier' in the heart of the Territory, where cattle are worked and mustered in the Dry when the glasses have hayed, and where the rains, when they come, fill the billabongs and creeks and bring new life to the land.
Modern-day pioneers, John and Terry built their station from scratch and raised and educated a new generation of Underwoods there. Times were tough and there was heartbreak, danger and struggle, but the power and love and the strength of family ties helped them overcome every obstacle.
'In the Middle of Nowhere' is their story. It's a story of beating the odds, told with warmth and a genuine knowledge of the Outback and its people, and the issues they face today. It's a dramatic and inspiring as the land that lies at the heart of this unforgettable book.
