Born: Established: 1966 Wollongong, Wollongong area, Illawarra, South Coast, New South Wales, ;
Gender:
Female
The Kensington Reptilarium
North Sydney
:
Random House Australia
,
2013
6511998
2013
single work
children's fiction
children's
'The Caddy kids are home alone and they're having the best time ever. Until a stranger arrives with news . . .
'This is the story of how four loud, grubby urchins from the Australian outback find themselves in London for the first peacetime Christmas after years of war.
'But their new guardian hates children. He prefers the company of the hundreds of snakes in his house – the Kensington Reptilarium.
'Fate lends Kick, Scruff, Bert and Pin a helping hand when outraged citizens call for the Reptilarium to be shut down. With the police about to descend, can the Caddy kids warm Uncle Basti's heart – and have their Christmas wishes granted – before it's too late?' (From the publisher's website.)
The Bride Stripped Bare
London
:
Fourth Estate
,
2003
Z987747
2003
single work
novel
(taught in 4 units)
A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the Good Wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. Inspired by a manuscript written by an anonymous Elizabethan woman who dared to speak of what women truly desire, she tastes for the first time the intoxicating power of knowing what she wants and how to get it. The question is, How long can she sustain a perilous double life?" "In writing The Bride Stripped Bare, the author decided to remain anonymous so she would feel absolutely free to explore a woman's inner world. As she writes in her afterword, "That doesn't mean this book is a memoir; it's many things to me, fiction and nonfiction, fantasy and fact, a quilt pieced together not only from my stories but those of my friends. (Source: Trove)
