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Stephanie Parkyn Stephanie Parkyn i(6041177 works by)
Gender: Female
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Stephanie Parkyn was raised in Christchurch, New Zealand. She holds a PhD and has worked as a freshwater ecologist. After moving to Tasmania, she pursued her interest in fiction, publishing her debut novel in 2017. By 2018, she had returned to New Zealand. In 2019, she published an historical novel on the life of Empress Josephine of France.

Sources include Tamar Valley Writers' Festival, 2018; Allen and Unwin.

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y separately published work icon Into the World Crows Nest : Allen and Unwin , 2017 11946733 2017 single work novel historical fiction

'In the midst of the 1791 French Revolution, unwed mother Marie-Louise Girardin takes one last look at her baby before thrusting him into the arms of her friend, the revolutionary Olympe de Gouges. Disguising herself as a man, she escapes as a steward on a ship journeying to the Great Southern Ocean in search of the missing explorer La Perouse. When the expedition docks in Java, chaos erupts with news of King Louis XVI's execution and the crew is imprisoned by the Dutch. Marie-Louise seems certain to be unmasked. Will she ever return to France and be reunited with her child? Inspired by a true story, Into the World is a compelling novel of the amazing life of Marie-Louise Girardin battling perilous seas and her own self-doubt, and finding unforeseen loves on a journey to reclaim her child.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.
2019 longlisted Tasmania Book Prizes — Tasmania Book Prize
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