Unit 4 : The road to success

J: First, Tony why did you go to Australia?

TW: Well, at that  time Maureen and I wanted to make a long journey before we returned to live and work in London. So we decided to go to Australia, and travel through Europe, the Middle East and Asia

J: Did you write your first book in Sydney ?

TW: Yes, we did. We had a very small flat in Sydney and we wrote the book on our kitchen tabke.

J: How much money did they take ?

TW: You mean on our journey to Australia ?

J: Yes.

TW: We took 1900$ and of course we spent it all. When we arrived in Sydney we had only 27 cents.

J: so not much left! How did you sell the book ?

TW: Well, I went to all the bookshops in Sydney and showed them the book. In one bookshop the buyer was very interested and he showed it to his girlfriend. That was very lucky because his girlfriend was a journalist for the Sydney Morning Herald and she asked me…