Makepeace, Vivienne

Born in New Zealand, Vivienne grew up in the subtropical forests of Titirangi. The family home sat on the edge of a cliff looking out on the Manukau Harbour, where six generations before her ancestors had arrived from Scotland, via Newfoundland, and sailed up the channel past the very spot where she would one day live in the land of the long white cloud, Aotearoa. She now lives in Australia, the land of wide blue skies and even wider horizons and calls herself a citizen of Oceania, the people of the south pacific. Compelled to write "My earliest recollection of this desire to write is of steal...