Margaret Gregory began writing at high school, but became more interested in science and worked to attain a Master of Science degree. She worked as an analytical chemist for ten years before retiring to raise two boys and study writing and editing. Now with her boys grown up, she has begun to rewrite her early novels. The first of these - The Wild One - won a Highly Commended in the 2011 Fellowship of Australian Writers - Jim Hamilton award for an unpublished manuscript of sustained quality, She lives with her three men in Melbourne, Australia, in a house with a metal roof that is used as a ru...