A versatile literary agent that crafts diverse narratives across genres and formats using historical research and collaborative writing methods
Born in Sydney, Australia, she began by writing verse, a play, and a collection of fairy stories, and subsequently gained notice for her novel Boomerang (1932), which despite its title had little Australian content. Her historical novel Under Capricorn (1937), a story of Sydney in the early 1800s, was filmed by ALFRED HITCHCOCK in 1949, and nine further novels followed, including Saraband fo Dead Lovers (1935), which…