Sue Kerr

I knew I wanted to be a writer when I was five years old. I was sitting cross-legged on the floor of the Invercargill Public Library, listening to Miss Miller, the children’s librarian, reading Rain Makes Applesauce. I just knew I'd be a writer.

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I've written since I was little, mostly personal, quiet writing—diaries, poems, letters. After a thirty-year career as an editor and writer, helping hundreds of people find their voices, tell their stories and publish their writing, I've decided it's time to write my own stories, in my own voice.

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It’s more than fifty years since that epiphany in the library. Unlikely Stories of a Perfect Childhood is my first book. It won't be my last.