About the Author

Jenny Pattrick is a writer and former jeweller whose six published novels, including The Denniston Rose, its sequel Heart of Coal, the Whanganui novel Landings, and Inheritance, set in Samoa, have all been number one bestsellers in New Zealand. In 2009 she received the New Zealnd Post Mansfield Fellowship. In 2011 she and husband, musician Laughton Pattrick, published the children's book and CD of songs, The Very Important Godwit.