The Lucky Ones is a moving and meticulously researched book of refugee stories from award-winning journalist and former foreign correspondent, Melinda Ham. Featuring people from different generations, countries and backgrounds, these families all share one thing in common – escaping persecution in their home country to find safety in Australia. Reconstructing these profound stories of love and loss, despair and hope, betrayal and loyalty, resilience and generosity, The Lucky Ones chronicles the journeys of refugees who arrived over a 70-year-period, establishing new lives, while still facing many hardships. More than 35 million refugees around the world are currently waiting to be resettled. As authoritarianism and climate change threatens to displace ever greater numbers of people, the stories in this book put a human face to the crisis. In their own words, the people in this book are some of 'the lucky ones' who survived terror, detention, beatings and torture to discover a country that offered them a new beginning.

'Powerful, heart-breaking, harrowing and deeply moving.' Susan Duncan

'The voices in these six stories capture the humour, resilience and tenacity of the people who have made Australia home.'Alice Pung