Amy Witting was born in Sydney in 1918. Beginning late in life she published six novels, including I for Isobel (1989), Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop (2000) and A Change in the Lighting (1994); two collections of short stories and several volumes of verse. She had numerous poems and short stories published in magazines such as The New Yorker. Witting was awarded the 1993 Patrick White Prize. Isobel on the Way to the Corner Shop won the Age Book of the Year Award. The author died in 2001.
ASHLEY HAY’s most recent novel is A Hundred Small Lessons. Her previous novel, The Railwayman’s Wife, received the Colin Roderick
Award from the Foundation for Australian Literary Studies and the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards People’s Choice Award. It was published in the US and the UK, and in translation. In 2016 she won the Bragg UNSW Press Prize for Science Writing.