Nina Nola has spent all of her working life among books, the majority of it joyfully teaching English literature at the University of Auckland. She has many academic publications to her credit and has guest lectured at universities and cultural institutions around the world. She has also been involved in several film productions in various capacities based on her Croatian heritage. Nina lives with her architect husband on a small farm by the sea in Whangateau and travels each year to spend time in her great-grandmother’s house on the island Hvar in Croatia. This is her first book.