Writer
Nadine has been creating stories for as long as she can remember and she started writing her first novel when she was 12. It was a fantasy story about a boy called Tom, his friend the Unicorn and an evil beast called the Sniggi-nossam who tormented the inhabitants of the Enchanted Forest on the other side of the River or Dreams. Unfortunately, after only four chapters were completed, the manuscript, kept in a carefully ordered folder, was lost forever. Devastated by this loss, Nadine ceased all creative writing pursuits that were not directly linked to school or university education, but her mind continued to conjure.
When she enrolled in a creative writing unit as part of her university degree she started to pen her life-story and ten years later, Wobbles - An Olympic Story won the IP Picks Award 2009 for 'Best Creative Non-Fiction'. She feels incredibly fortunate to have been given this break and, with a renewed faith in writing and her capacity to not lose manuscripts, she is embarking on bringing life to a number of those ideas she has been thinking about for many years.
Nadine is currently working on her first "real" novel called Lily & Marguerite. It tells the parallel and intersecting stories of two young women, one German and the other a French Jew, during their experiences in World War II, post-war Europe and their eventual migration to Australia. Inspired by the lives of Nadine's grandmothers, the story looks at the suffering on both sides of war, at fractured lives and the search for wholeness, and how our common humanity can be the greatest healing force.
She is also working on a picture book dealing with bullying and has plans for four more novels and a series of children's stories.
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Wobbles - An Olympic Story
First Time Mum
Toddler Transitions
Articles
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