Margareta Osborn is a fifth-generation farmer who has lived and worked on the land all her life. She also writes about it in the Gippsland Country Life magazine. Home is the beautiful Macalister Valley of East Gippsland where, with her husband and three children, she spends many hours in the mountains in which her novels are set. She is the author of three bestselling novels, Bella's Run, Hope's Road and Mountain Ash, and the no.1 bestselling ebook A Bush Christmas.