Patricia Donovan
PATRICIA DONOVAN is a New Zealand author. She grew up in Christchurch and graduated from the University of Canterbury with a Master’s Degree (with honours) in English Literature. After graduation she worked in corporate and government communications in Australia and New Zealand and is the author of a best practice guide for the profession. She is now a full-time novelist and her genre is adult fiction.
Genre:
- Adult Fiction
Skills:
- Novelist
- Screenwriting
Branch:
Wellington
Location:
Paraparaumu
Publications:
Communications. The four essential steps to best practice. Dunmore Publishing
A comprehensive, step by step guide to corporate communications and reputation management.
The Remarkable Miss Digby
An historical novel, 'The Remarkable Miss Digby' tells the story of Jane Digby, specifically during the last twenty years of her life. It's the 1850s and Jane, mocked by society for her scandalous behaviour, flees Europe for Syria where she intends to settle down but just can't help herself getting into more trouble.Jane Digby's life has been well chronicled; in this book, Patricia Donovan, drawing on her own experience in the Syrian desert, imagines Jane's life in that wild land. All author earnings from this novel are being donated to ReliefAid for its support to families displaced by the Syrian civil war.
The Madison Gap
In Sydney, 2017, in the laid-back suburb of Glebe, Lexi Madison is living her ideal life with her husband Conor. When her older sister Chrissy comes to stay, Lexi's world starts to unravel as dark family secrets are revealed, and she learns how insidiously truth can be perverted, and that exposing those secrets can drive a person to the brink of murder.
In this ultimately explosive story of a young woman's awakening, Patricia Donovan evokes the angst of family discordance and, as we follow Lexi's search for understanding, captures the disquiet and uncertainty that comes when dreams are challenged by reality.
The Collections
It's 2041. The population bomb has exploded. The climate is in crisis. Only extreme measures will save our species, and in an attempt to restore balance, the government has legalised Collecitons. Unimaginable. Understandable. Unavoidable? Claris works in a government Collections Depot but after her beloved husband is taken there to die - a sacrifice he makes willingly to help reduce population pressure - she finds her job increasingly abhorrent. Plagued by unease and indecision, she tires to reconcile her morals with reality.