Born: Established: Holland, ;
Gender:
Female
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- Access online Sighted: 01/05/2019
Personal Awards
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2010
second place
FAW (Tas) Henry Savery National Short Story Award
for His Inappropriate Heart
- 2005 winner ABC Radio Regional Production Fund Short Story Project ABC Radio Short Story Competition for Fully Sick Backpackers
Awards for Works
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The Girl with the Gold Bikini
Mile End
:
Wakefield Press
,
2020
18247236
2020
single work
novel
young adult
'Whenever I see a girl with a gold bikini, I think of Princess Leia. Here on the Gold Coast, gold bikinis are common, so I think of Princess Leia a lot.
'Eighteen-year-old Olivia Grace has deferred her law degree and ducked out of her friends' gap-year tour of Asia. Instead, she's fulfilling her childhood dream of becoming a private investigator, following in the footsteps of Nancy Drew and Veronica Mars - who taught her everything she knows, including a solid line in quick-quipping repartee, the importance of a handbag full of disguises, and a way of mixing business with inconvenient chemistry.
'Playing Watson to the Sherlock of her childhood friend, detective agency owner Rosco (once the Han Solo to her Princess Leia), Olivia pursues a routine cheating husband case from the glitzy Gold Coast to Insta-perfect Byron Bay, where she faces yoga wars, dirty whale activism, and a guru who's kind of a creep.'
Source: Publisher's blurb.
- 2021 longlisted Davitt Award — Best Debut
- 2021 shortlisted Davitt Award — Best Young Adult Book
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