Peers, Jane

Through five years novelist Wendy Robertson spent what she calls 'a life-changing time' working in a women's prison as writer in Residence. This well-received novel, Paulie's Web, is one creative outcome of that experience as were several publications of the women's own writing. She has written many novels, historical and contemporary, which have at their core a consideration of the extraordinary lives of so-called ordinary people. Always a published writer, after relishing and surviving academic life, Wendy Robertson has published twenty-two novels, both historical and contemporary, two short...