About the Author

In all Marilyn Duckworth has published 14 novels, a short story collection, a book of poems, an autobiography and edited a non-fiction collection. She has won the Literary Fund Award for Achievement and the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction. In 1987 she was awarded an OBE for services to literature. She has held the Katherine Mansfield Fellowship in Menton, a Fulbright Visiting Writers Fellowship and several university fellowships.