Case 11
- Contemporary Novelists
Juliet Marillier. Daughter of the Forest. Sydney: Macmillan, 1999.
Juliet Marillier, née Scott (1948-) is an award-winning author of novels combining historical fiction, folkloric fantasy, romance, and family drama.
Born in Dunedin, she attended Otago Girls’ High School from 1962-65. She has been a full-time writer for over 15 years and now resides in Western Australia.
Marillier’s first novel Daughter of the Forest (1999) is set in early medieval Ireland and begins the Sevenwaters series. Wolfskin is the first of a Viking duology. Blade of Fortriu forms part of the Bridei Chronicles, set in the kingdom of the Picts.
Juliet Marillier. Wolfskin. Sydney: Tor, 2002.
Juliet Marillier. Blade of Fortriu. Sydney: Tor, 2005.
Christine Carrell. Harvest: a Novel. Dunedin: Nugget Stream Press, 2017.
Chris Carrell (née McCorkindale) is a Dunedin writer. She was a student at Otago Girls’ High School from 1963-1967 and pursued a career in radiography and education.
Her debut novel Harvest is a historical novel set in post-earthquake Napier, wartime Wellington and rural Otago between the 1930s and 1970s. It is the story of a woman’s struggles and achievements as she adjusts to a new life in southern rural New Zealand.
