Mary-Rose MacColl

The True Story of Maddie Bright is Mary-Rose MacColl's sixth novel. Her first novel, No Safe Place , was runner-up in the 1995 Australian/Vogel literary award and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars , was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Awards. Her international bestseller, In Falling Snow , was published to great acclaim in 2012 in Australia and the US. Swimming Home , published in 2015, won the People's Choice Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards. MacColl's memoir, For a Girl ,...See more

The True Story of Maddie Bright is Mary-Rose MacColl's sixth novel. Her first novel, No Safe Place , was runner-up in the 1995 Australian/Vogel literary award and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars , was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Awards. Her international bestseller, In Falling Snow , was published to great acclaim in 2012 in Australia and the US. Swimming Home , published in 2015, won the People's Choice Award at the 2016 Queensland Literary Awards. MacColl's memoir, For a Girl , was published in 2017 and was shortlisted in the Queensland Literary awards and the Victorian Premier's Literary awards. She lives in Brisbane, Australia, with her husband and son. See less