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Penny Griffith

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Salisbury, The United Kingdom

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Penny came from England to live permanently in New Zealand in 1987. She graduated BA Hons at University of Canterbury University in 2005, and was undertaking her MA thesis ‘Pacifism and the Baxter Family’ when the 2010 and 2011 earthquakes struck Christchurch. With her home in Avonside condemned, she moved to Wellington and started this book in 2011.

She lives at the top of a very large hill overlooking Island Bay in Wellington and the beautiful South Island with her dog Bollie. Her main passion is travelling the world, whenever her bank balance allows it.

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Out of the Shadows: The Life of Millicent Baxter

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