Peter Scott is a Sydney-based software developer and part-time writer. His research and writing interest are life journeys of people and family heirlooms—what the journeys reveal about family, society and change through time. In 2019, he identified 212 entries in an Australian schoolgirl’s 1909–1912 autograph album, and outlined 100 lives. The time before today’s technology, their life choices and how society treated them. It inspired The Face Beyond the Window set in 2041.
On a winter’s evening in 2041, 14-year-old Tom arrives at Albans School, tucked away in an isolated Blue Mountains location west of Sydney – a special school for children with disabilities. Tom doesn’t speak, can’t hear and has no word recognition. Watching Tom’s arrival from the school li...