New Zealand filmmaker and author Barbara Sumner has just published her first work of fiction, The Gallows Bird, a historical novel about a young female convict who is sent to Australia in the 1830s.
Barbara, who lives in Napier, is finding success as an older author, showing it’s never too late to follow your creative dreams.
As well as writing the novel, she is about to complete her PhD at the University of Victoria, and will spend time writing via a Michael King Residency.
Barbara speaks to Emile Donovan about the development and research of her novel over a 20-year period.
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