Julia Millen

A restless 17-year-old seeking fame, fortune (and romance) goes hitchhiking with three older girls. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life. Radiating hope and energy, the narrative follows this naive New Zealander to London with her family. Tragedy strikes when Julia's father dies, and upheaval follows. After a trip to Paris, hitchhiking adventures encompass sleeping...

One busy afternoon in her studio, Auckland fashion designer Deirdre Smythe receives a phone call from the police. The remains of a mountaineer, killed 30 years earlier in a fall on Mount Tasman, have been discovered on a glacier in New Zealand’s Southern Alps. The body could be that of a ski-mountaineering instructor who was Dee’s one-time lover. While coping...