Dianne Maguire is a social worker turned novelist with over 20 years’ experience in child welfare and protection. She has won the Pauline Walsh Prize in the Eastwood/Hills Regional Annual Literary Awards and in 2010 she co-wrote a collection of non-fiction short stories, ‘It’s About Time’, for children’s charity ‘Time for Kids’. Her articles have been published in state and national newspapers and magazines. Although Dianne lives in Adelaide with her husband Jerome, she does most of her writing on the Fleurieu Peninsula.