Jacqueline Maley is an award winning journalist and columnist with the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age newspapers.  She lives in Sydney and this is her first book.

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What I am loving about the way this author writes (and I have only read the first few chapters) is the way she works hard to avoid cliches. Early in her novel I read that a house was 'under the firm GUARDIANSHIP of a giant Moreton Bay fig' and how 'real estate agents would SLIME their business cards through the letterbox'.

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It's not easy for authors to find new ways to describe things, and I am impressed when I read someone who constantly works hard to find new ways to express things. 

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