#1 best-selling New Zealand author, Catherine Robertson was born in Wellington, New Zealand. She left for a while to live in San Francisco and Buckinghamshire, but is now back home. She divides her time between Wellington and Hawke's Bay. All five of her novels have been #1 on the NZ bestsellers list. Her fourth, The Hiding Places, also won the Nelson Libraries 2015 NZ Fiction Book of the Year . Her latest novel, Gabriel's Bay, came out in January and its sequel What You Wish For is out now in New Zealand and Australia.