Amanda Deed is an award-wining author residing in Melbourne with her husband, her three grown up children and a menagerie of birds and bunnies. Outside of her family, her life revolves around words, numbers (writing and accounting) and a healthy splash of music. Her first novel, The Game, won the 2010 CALEB Prize for Fiction, and she has since had several novels final in the same prize. Amanda loves to write about her favourite things: her faith, Australia, romance and Australian history. As such, her novels explore themes involving spiritual convictions, relationships and historical events.