Susan Duncan enjoyed a 25-year career spanning radio, newspaper and magazine journalism, including editing The Australian Women's Weekly and New Idea. She now lives in her own patch of offshore paradise, Pittwater, in the beautiful home built for poet Dorothea Mackellar in 1925.Her bestselling memoir, Salvation Creek won the 2007 Nielsen BookData Booksellers Choice Award and was shortlisted for the prestigious Dobbie Award, part of the Nita B Kibble awards for women writers. Its sequel, The House at Salvation Creek, was also a huge bestseller.She has now turned her hand to fiction and is the author of two novels: The Briny Cafe and Gone Fishing.