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Fiona Lowe is a bestselling Australian author who has been a midwife, a sexual-health counsellor and a family-support worker; an ideal career for an author who writes novels about family and relationships. She spent her early years in Papua New Guinea where, without television, reading was the entertainment and it set up a lifelong love of books. Although she often re-wrote the endings of books in her head, it was the birth of her first child that prompted her to write her first novel. A recipient of the prestigious USA RITA award and two Australian Ruby awards, Lowe writes books that are set in small country towns. They feature real people facing difficult choices and explore how family ties and relationships impact on their decisions. When Lowe isn't writing stories, she's a distracted wife, mother of two ‘ginger' sons, a volunteer in her community, the guardian of eighty rose bushes, a slave to a cat, and is often found collapsed on the couch with wine.

Rebecca Macauley is an award-winning narrator. She has appeared in various television series, including international hit Neighbours and Australian drama Blue Heelers. Her work includes the US feature film Darkness Falls and the children's television series Wicked Science. Rebecca has previously narrated Saving Francesca by Melina Marchetta and Ursula Dubosarsky's Abyssinia.