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Rose Michael was the editor of Australian Bookseller and Publisher in 2003 and the Weekly Book Newsletter. She has worked as a journalist and as an academic.
yThe Asking Game2002Yarraville:Transit Lounge,2007Z11658162002single work novel thriller 'Sydney, 2020 - 'the city of water'. Alice's life is about to change in ways she could never have imagined. Alice, or Eve as she was once known, is hired to expose Eternity, the cult that was founded outside the small desert town where she was born. With Drew, the boy from upstairs, who may be spying on her or watching over her, she begins a dream-like road trip into the dead heart of Australia where the past unravels into the future with exhilarating speed. Why did her sister Lucy leave her and what is it that happened between them? Who was her mother? Questions are asked. Their answers haunt and unsettle.' (Publisher's blurb)