Life-long friends, Jack, Harry and Peter, were born in 1933 and spent their early childhood on the Tasman Peninsula. They sought careers far from their homeland but, despite living far apart as adults and following their own guiding stars, they, like the swallows, returned time and again to their birthplace. Swallows Fly North is their story - a tale of boys growing from romantic children to the realities of manhood during the years from 1940 to 1963; a tale of migration, regeneration and the protection of cultural heritage. Friendship -- Tasmania -- Tasman Peninsula -- Fiction. | Coming of age -- Fiction. | Interpersonal relations in children -- Fiction. | Interpersonal relations -- Fiction. | Australian fiction -- Tasmania -- 21st century. | Authors, Australian -- Tasmania -- 21st century. | Tasman Peninsula (Tas.) -- Fiction. | Australian