Thorburn, S.

The accidental author... Janet Balcombe doesn't feel like the convicted kidnapper and methamphetamine survivor who flies through the pages of her memoir, 'Take a Walk on the Wild Side'. She feels like a grateful mother, daughter and sister given a second chance. She never planned to be a writer, just because she never planned anything much at all - but the story is so huge it just had to come out one way or another. A lifetime in the living (much of it in the New Zealand underbelly) and ten years in the writing, Janet's memoir has taken on a life of its own. Almost daily she receives messages