Saroo adjusts to life in Australia relatively quickly, though he runs through his memories of India nightly. Mum and Dad adopt him, and he arrives in Tasmania when he’s five years old. The authorities try to help, but they cannot figure out where Saroo is from, and he’s eventually put up for adoption. Saroo lives on the street for several weeks, but eventually a teenager takes him to the police. When Saroo is five, he mistakenly boards a train and finds himself transported to the bustling and dangerous city of Calcutta. Though his family lives in extreme poverty and Saroo is often hungry, he learns to thrive: he develops street smarts and steals often. When he’s about four, he becomes responsible for his baby sister, Shekila. He admires his mother Kamla, and his older brothers Guddu and Kallu. Retrieved 16 September 2016.The author and narrator of the book, Saroo was born “Sheru” in the central Indian town of Khandwa. ^ " 'Arrival,' 'La La Land,' 'Moonlight' and more: How the Toronto Film Festival movies will play with Oscar voters".^ "TIFF 2016: Garth Davis' 'Lion' with Dev Patel is an Emotional Journey"."Dev Patel's Lion May Be the Inspirational Awards-Season Tale You're Looking For". ^ "Saroo Brierley on set to see his life story take shape"."Book Review: 'A Long Way Home' Taylor Dibbert Book Review: 'A Long Way Home' ". "Book review: 'A Long Way Home,' by Saroo Brierley". "A Long Way Home: Ghostwriter Larry Buttrose on telling Saroo Brierley's story behind the film Lion". "Lion: Saroo Brierley's next book to be a prequel to A Long Way Home". "Saroo Brierley, the inspiration for the film Lion: 'My mother saw my face after 25 years' ". Dev Patel was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. The film premiered at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival. In 2016, the book was adapted into major international feature film Lion, directed by Garth Davis and starring Dev Patel, Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara.
Retitled Lion, the book was on The New York Times Best Seller list for Paperback Nonfiction for six weeks during the first quarter of 2017. Brierley’s journey is inspirational and deeply moving it’s another reminder of how potent passion and the human spirit actually are". He concludes the book on a reflective note. This is an honest story of pain, struggle, hope and love. Taylor Dibbert of International Policy Digest added "It’s not hard to understand why this work has received such high praise. As well as the tale of his quest, he provides an informative and fascinating insight into how Third World families live with, and somehow survive, their poverty". Dianne Dempsey of The Sydney Morning Herald commented "Brierley writes in a straightforward manner without trying to do anything fancy except tell a remarkable story. Karina Wetherbee of Vail Daily stated "There is a real feeling of catharsis when reading Brierley's astounding narrative, in the classic sense of a happy ending, for the journey of the author as a boy - and then again as a young man - evokes the audacity of a fable, but it is set in the real world, a place where wonderment and miraculous occurrences can often seem wanting". Buttrose recorded hours of interviews with both Saroo and his adoptive mother and completed a 70,000-word manuscript in a hotel room in Kolkata to meet a tough three-month deadline set by the publisher. In an interview to ABC Radio Sydney, Larry Buttrose explained that "From the very first time I came in contact with the story, I knew it was a fantastic story. In this autobiographical book, Brierley covers three decades of his life, describing his ordeals and adventures as a lost five-year-old in rural India, his adoption by a middle-class Australian family, and his search for his Indian native family some 25 years later.
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