The series documents an unknown foreign power’s invasion of Australia and chronicles the experiences of Ellie, a local teenager, and her young friends during the war. Tomorrow, When the War Began is the first of seven novels in John Marsden’s young adult Tomorrow series. He later opened a secondary school focused solely on the arts, the Alice Miller School, also in Victoria. Marsden opened an alternative school, Candlebark, in Victoria, where he currently serves as principal. Marsden is the author of over 40 books and has sold millions of copies around the world however, since 2005 he has backed off writing and returned to teaching. The Tomorrow series is largely considered to be one of the most successful series written in all of Australia’s literary history and has won numerous awards and prizes.
In 1993, Marsden began the Tomorrow series and published Tomorrow, When the War Began, which proved to be his biggest success yet. He published Letters from the Inside in 1991, which won the Fanfare Horn Book Best Book award, and he followed it up with Take My Word for It in 1992, which was shortlisted for the Children’s Book of the Year Award for Older Readers by the Children’s Book Council of Australia. So Much to Tell You went on to win Book of the Year by the Children’s Book Council of Australia, and Marsden continued to write. Marsden hoped to spark his students’ interest in reading with the novel, and it proved to be a huge success, both critically and commercially. Marsden worked as an English teacher at Geelong Grammar School’s Timbertop, a prominent boarding school in Victoria, where he wrote his first young adult novel, So Much to Tell You, in 1987. In his 20s, Marsden worked numerous odd jobs, all of which were unsatisfying, until he began teaching in 1978. Marsden suffered from severe depression and even became suicidal, and he was admitted to an inpatient psychiatric hospital.
He soon dropped out due to little academic interest and struggled with his mental health for some time. From King’s School, Marsden enrolled at Sydney University, where he studied law and the arts. When Marsden was 10, he moved to Sydney and went to the King’s School, Parramatta, a highly respected boarding school for boys. Marsden was born in Victoria, Australia, but spent most of his early life living in the rural town of Devonport, Tasmania, an island off Australia’s south coast.
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