Caroline Overington is the author of two non-fiction books, Only in New York and Kickback, which won the Blake Dawson Prize for Business Literature. She has twice won a Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism, and has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch Award for Journalistic Excellence. She has written four novels: Ghost Child, I Came to Say Goodbye, Matilda is Missing and Sisters of Mercy. She lives in Bondi with her husband and their young twins.