About the author

Fiona McKenzie Kekic is a recovering television professional with credits ranging from ‘60 Minutes’ to ‘Married at First Sight’. Her face even featured on the ‘Sale of the Century’ fame game board back in the day. This remains an unlikely and slightly absurd career highlight.

Television has always been cutthroat, but it was an especially tough road for a woman back in the eighties and nineties. After way too many scarring years in commercial news and current affairs, Fiona co-wrote ‘Boned’ with her equally disgruntled colleague Jane Hansen. They lived through every hideous, misogynistic moment they recounted anonymously in that novel. ‘Boned’ was published in 2008. Judging from the constant scandals and million dollar payouts, nothing much has changed. But they did make the bastards squirm for a while.

Television and its dastardly cast of characters continue to appear in Fiona’s stories. But she’s now stepped away from that world to concentrate full time on writing and to make the most of life’s next stage. She believes absolutely that middle age is just the beginning and that women only get stronger as they age. There is a world of both figurative and literal mountains out there to prove it.

Fiona lives in Sydney with her husband Murat, son Arley and their rescue cattle dog Vels.