It doesn’t happen every day, and certainly not every week, but I’m delighted to have made New Zealand’s Top 10 author bestsellers (non fiction) for The Missing Piece! The results were announced on 8 March (which I believe is based on data from from Sunday through Saturday the previous week). The Nielsen BookScan New Zealand...Continue reading
I’m proud to have The Missing Piece featured in New Zealand Listener’s Book Takes. It was a wonderful opportunity to share what interesting things readers will learn and what I learnt during the writing process of THE MISSING PIECE. It was an interesting exercise to pick out just a handful of things that I thought...Continue reading
Yesterday I was delighted to be interviewed by the very respected Radio New Zealand ‘Nine To Noon’ host Kathryn Ryan. One of the main reasons for writing THE MISSING PIECE was to share as much information on ADHD as possible, especially relevant to those living with an adult diagnosis, currently one in twenty. Frustratingly over...Continue reading
I am well and truly delighted to announce that The Missing Piece – A Woman’s Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD has officially been released to the world. The official book publication date of 31 January 2024 (today!) seemed like forever away in early 2023 when I submitted my manuscript to Harper Collins...
The Missing Piece audiobook can be found in any good audiobook store worldwide and is released, as with the printed version, on 31 January 2024. If you are not a traditional reader, find reading a struggle (which is common for ADHD’ers due to the difficulty focusing for long periods), or prefer to multitask while listening...Continue reading
After being diagnosed with ADHD at 52, I found myself with so many questions and naturally I went looking for answers. The more I read, the more my diagnosis made sense and the more I understood my own life journey. I realised that while adult ADHD was increasingly appearing in news headlines, little insight was...Continue reading
There’s something about the underground that calls to the misfits, the outsiders, the ones who don’t quite fit in. Our music video, UNDERGROUND from our HUMAN+ album, is an ode to those people and places…gritty and raw. Like all of our video projects, UNDERGROUND was a full-on, hands-on production. No outside crew. No stylists. No...Continue reading
A year older, another great topic! The Politically Incorrect Guide to Grown Ups was the natural follow-up to The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers — written and directed by Nigel Latta, and again full of painfully relatable truths. I returned as “Janine,” and with my husband “Larry” (John Leigh), we navigated the kinds of problems...Continue reading
One of those fun projects for me was playing “Janine”, mum to two headstrong teenagers, in The Politically Incorrect Guide to Teenagers series. Hosted by New Zealand’s go-to clinical psychologist, bestselling author, and straight shooter, Nigel Latta, this wasn’t your typical drama series. Directed by Stephen Campbell and produced by Razor Films, The Politically Incorrect...Continue reading
‘The Man Who Lost His Head’ was a two-hour comedy-drama, an ITV/South Pacific Pictures production directed by Terry Johnson. It was filmed here in New Zealand, set in the fictional coastal town of Otakataka. Windswept and rural, most of it was shot on the West Coast of the North Island, around Huia and Bethells Beach....Continue reading