In the early eighties Sue McCauley’s first novel, Other Halves, won both the Goodman Fielder Wattie and New Zealand Book Awards for fiction. It was reprinted numerous times, in New Zealand and overseas, selling in excess of 20,000 copies, and was made into a film. In subsequent years Sue wrote four more novels, two short story collections and a biography. She has also written drama for stage and TV and adapted her own novel for the film Other Halves. That, Sue’s first book, was loosely based on the early — and unconventional — relationship between Sue and her now husband, Pat, who these days live on a farm near Dannevirke. They have been together for fifty years.