About the Author

One of New Zealand's best-loved writers, Joy Cowley has received many awards and honours including the NZ Post Children's Book Award for contribution to NZ Literature, the OBE, Distinguished Companion of the NZ Order of Merit and the Prime Minister's Award for Fiction. Joy is one of NZ's most prolific spiritual writers with her Aotearoa Psalms, Psalms Down Under, Psalms for the Road, Come and See and her 2013 Notes to a Friend all in world-wide demand. Her children's spiritual writing includes The Easter Story (2012) and Saint Grandma (2013).