Enting, Carolyn

Carolyn Enting was born in Lower Hutt, New Zealand and grew up in a rural bush setting on Blue Mountains Road overlooking the Tararua mountain ranges. The family home, built in the early 1970s by her parents, had floor-to-ceiling bookshelves in the high stud lounge that spanned two levels. The lounge also housed a tree trunk at its centre upon which a mezzanine platform with more bookshelves perched - like a floating tree house library. Many solitary hours in her childhood were spent reading fantasy and detective novels as well as writing stories dreamed up in her imagination, and exploring th...