Beginner’s Pluck
When Charity was young, and lived in Yorkshire, she thought she was a reincarnation of Emily Bronte. “I’d swan around, writing really bad stories and poetry,” she says.
She became a barrister, practising for years in England’s north east, while her husband looked after the children. “I met him on a truck crossing the Sahara Desert. He was a mechanic.” They sold up and moved to New Zealand, so Charity could write.
