Meet Caroline

Caroline was the nine-year-old girl who marched up to the desk of her small town library demanding access to the young adult section, having read every children’s book. She was the teenager who sat in bed reading three hundred page novels by the light seeping in from the hallway. Now she’s an adult who loves writing books, perhaps even a little more than reading them.

Raised under the shadow of a volcano in provincial New Zealand, she now lives on the edge of the city of Auckland, with stunning beaches and good coffee (and surrounded by more volcanoes, fortunately extinct).

Caroline’s love of her country of birth is frequently overshadowed by a compelling longing for the homelands of her European immigrant family, who came to New Zealand from the United Kingdom and Switzerland. No, she doesn’t dance round the maypole or yodel, but loves to drink whisky and beer, and eat chocolate and cheese. She weaves this affinity for her Northern Hemisphere roots throughout her books.

Mother of fur kids – dogs, cats and vertically challenged horses – she’s sometimes described as animal obsessed. But she’s made room in her life for her other magnificent obsessions – travel, genealogy, history, some stargazing and, of course, books.

Caroline didn’t set out to write romance, but her characters took control the moment she let them loose on the page, reminding her that finding happy ever afters are the reason she’s one of those people who sometimes reads the last page first, just to be safe.