JESSE BLACKADDER is an award-winning novelist, freelance journalist and budding screenwriter. Her novel The Raven’s Heart won the Benjamin Franklin Award for historical fiction (USA), and her novel Chasing the Light earned her an Antarctic Arts Fellowship. She is also the author of three children’s books, Dexter the Courageous Koala, Paruku the Desert Brumby and Stay the Last Dog in Antarctica. This is her fourth adult novel and is inspired by an event in her own family’s life.