Liz Byrski is the author of nine novels and a number of non-fiction books, the latest of which is In Love and War: Nursing Heroes. She has worked as a freelance journalist, a broadcaster with ABC Radio and as an advisor to a minister in the Western Australian Government. Liz has a PhD in writing from Curtin University where she is the Director of the China Australia Writing Centre.
She writes with warmth, insight and gently humour about ordinary, flawed characters grappling with relevant, real-life issues. --Courier Mail Byrski . . . is by turns turbulent and tender. Her characters are portrayed as . . . warm, funny, flawed heroes and heroines grappling with the cards destiny has dealt them. --West Australian [A Month of Sundays] demonstrated the capacity of a book to act as a mirror to the soul and an eloquent guide to a more contented future. Executed with wit and affection, the novel delivers exactly what it promises. --Weekend Australian