The Dark

The Dark

The Dark     3 The plot When I started my creative writing course at the University of East Anglia, I planned to write a serial killer story based in Perth. I wanted to capture that sense of an invisible threat hiding in plain sight that had stayed with...
The Deep

The Deep

The Deep     3 The characters When I started writing The Shark, I had only the vaguest sense of the two main characters, Carmen and Raych. I knew they were two young women who barely knew each other who’d met on a psychiatric ward. I knew they were each...
The Beach

The Beach

The Beach     3 The significance of the setting Cottesloe Beach was the first place we lived as a family in Western Australia. It was where I first swam in the ocean, where I hung out as a teenager, and a place I always came back to after I moved away....