'Fleur du Malley, scion of a hapless aristocratic émigré family from the Mallais who exchanged the Jacobin Terror for the Australian Terra, squatted in the backwoods of the Victorian frontier. Inspired by the local treescape, she australianised her name. Then under the tutelage of her showman beau, M. de Laire, Fleur flourished in the bush, to soon become the enfant terrible of Australo-French Letters.'
(Author's biography for pseudonym, Cordite no.23, 2005.)
