- Before becoming a writer, she studied medicine. She spent 10 years as a researcher at Yale medical school.
- Cousin (by marriage) of Helen Reddy and Toni Lamond.
- Since January 1980, she has lived on Norfolk Island, off the east coast of Australia.
- She was awarded the A.O. (Officer of the Order of Australia) in the 2006 Queen's Birthday Honours List for her services to the arts as an author and to the community through roles supporting national and international educational programs, medico-scientific disciplines and charitable organizations and causes.
- Norfolk Island, Australia (February 2009)
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