Born in Wellington, she now lives in Melbourne, working as a newspaper journalist. This is her first novel.
This novel was inspired by… “My career as a journalist and by my extended family. My great, big, fat, political, union, social-justice family inspired the plot about the death of a female wharfie.
My grandfather and great uncles, even a great aunt, worked around the wharves and driving trucks in Wellington.”
I wanted to write fiction because… “Reading other people’s stories is one of the best things we can do. Books help us understand different worlds. They make us fall in love again, stand up and fight, accept, get angry, laugh, cry and open our minds. After more than 25 years writing hard facts as a journalist,
I realised I’d already published…
