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Diana Menefy has lived in rural New Zealand for the last forty-four years and writes with authorityabout the wet, mud and muck of a farm. She was born in Christchurch. Growing up in the South Island gave her a rich collection of experiences and images: the snow on the mountains, the autumncolours, the north-west winds and having to push her bike home as the pay-off for an express ride toschool.In 1974 Diana and her husband bought a dairy farm in Tapuhi, Northland. Life on the farm with a river that flooded and three adventurous children was a great background for a budding writer. Her first stories and articles were published in the New Zealand Farmer and School Journal in the late 1970s and early 1980s.For the next ten years most of her published work was non-fiction although she had several short stories in anthologies. She worked as a parttime feature writer for the local paper, then went freelance to work on commissioned histories.Running parallel with this was a passion for childr...