Beatrice Hale
Author | Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand |
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Beatrice Hale is a Scottish-born, New Zealand resident, and has had several roles; she has been a social worker/researcher and is now an enthusiastic writer, both of non-fiction and fiction. Her non-fiction works include books on gardening (The New Zealand Pleasure Garden, The NZ Herb Calender), gerontology (The Age of Supported Inde.... more
Beatrice Hale is a Scottish-born, New Zealand resident, and has had several roles; she has been a social worker/researcher and is now an enthusiastic writer, both of non-fiction and fiction. Her non-fiction works include books on gardening (The New Zealand Pleasure Garden, The NZ Herb Calender), gerontology (The Age of Supported Independence; Family Care), and now on children's and young adult fiction (Ice Escape, and The Resolute Heart).
Her fiction stories are based on true events: Ice Escape is based on her grandfather's rescue of the American Flying Family in 1932, and The Resolute Heart is based on her family origins in Cellardyke in Fife, Scotland.