Charlotte Randall is the author of five novels. Her first novel, Dead Sea Fruit, won the South East Asian/South Pacific section of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book and the Reed Fiction Award in 1995. Her second novel, The Curative, was runner-up in the Montana NZ Book Awards, made into a play and serialised for national radio. What Happen Then, Mr Bones? and The Crocus Hour (2008) were finalists in the Montana NZ Book Awards. Her sixth novel is Hokitika Town (Penguin 2011). Charlotte lives in Christchurch with her husband and two children.