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Do you think the use of an interweaving narrative – switching between present and past – makes the story more engaging?
Christine has worked hard to make good of her life, despite a rough start. How important are the themes of forgiveness and letting go of the past, not only with Christine, but other characters in the book, like Lee?
Annabelle is the ghost throughout the novel. Did you find yourself wanting to know more about Annabelle through her own eyes instead of the eyes of those who miss her?
Melissa Pouliot has always loved to write. Her early childhood stories about princesses, fairies and goblins inspired by authors such as Enid Blyton and May Gibbs evolved to teenage soap operas and adventure stories inspired by Trixie Beldon, Sweet Valley High and her own experiences. While studying a Commerce university degree, she wrote her first unpublished piece for friends and family based on when she worked a governess on a sheep station near Cunnamulla in outback Queensland.
After an epiphany on a train late one night in Sydney, she changed her university studies from numbers to words. She returned to the harsh outback Queensland heat of Charleville to start her media career before moving south to the flat, arid landscape of Western Victoria to work in the busy newsroom of a tri-weekly paper.
When her first child was six months old she started her own media company. Through her journalism career and her own business, she has written stories on just about every topic. Her stories about people are widely recognised as her true heart. As well as her international bestselling crime fiction novels, she has also published several non-fiction books.
Melissa is the only Australian writer who’s the family member of a missing person, writing of her experiences through fiction. The Australian Federal Police has endorsed all her novels and have presented them at international missing persons’ conferences. She is also an Ambassador for the Daniel Morcombe Foundation and the founder of Picnic for Missing, an annual event to honour missing people.
Melissa lives with her husband and three children on the NSW South Coast. Surrounded by the brilliant blue ocean and beautiful national parks, she writes every single day.
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