Virginia Duigan wrote the screenplay of the 1998 movie The Leading Man, starring Jon Bon Jovi, Thandie Newton and Barry Humphries. Before becoming a novelist, Duigan worked as a journalist, broadcaster, editor and TV scriptwriter. She was a regular feature writer on The National Times, and contributed documentaries to ABC radio. She was a freelance contributor to The Bulletin, The Age, The Australian, The Financial Review, Cinema Papers, and in London to the The Observer and The Times. She was Literary Editor of The National Times, and a theatre, book, film and restaurant reviewer. She has been a book and ABC TV script editor, and also a feature film script assessor for the Australian Film Commission.
""A tremendous . . . novel possessing real charm, a kind of freshness and guilelessness that is very potent--and a toughness and reality that I genuinely applaud."" --Wiliam Boyd, author, "" Ordinary Thunderstorms"" ""Searingly honest . . . brilliantly expressed in lyrical prose. The wife of film director Bruce Beresford, Duigan explores the boundaries that should and shouldn't be crossed in biography."" --""Publishers Weekly"" starred review on ""The Biographer""