Shearwater

Andrea Mayes was born in the north of England in 1955 and emigrated to Melbourne in 1976.  She has written stories and poetry since she was a child.  Her writing has won awards and commendations and has been published in literary magazines, anthologies, newspapers, and broadcast by the ABC.  Her critically acclaimed novel, The Rose Notes (Penguin 2005), interweaving the stories of two families in a fictional southern Riverina landscape, is listed for VCE Literature Studies 2008/9/10.  Her second novel, Shearwater (Penguin 2007), tells the story of Cassie Callinan as she learns to to handle one of life's more brutal surprises with her own brand of courage and humour.  Shearwater reached the Top Ten Bestsellers list nationally.