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Barbara Sumner

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Barbara Sumner is a writer and documentary filmmaker.

Her back catalogue of achievements includes producing three highly acclaimed feature documentaries, a career in journalism, event production, television, bringing up five daughters and being accepted into a Masters program at the tender age of 60.

Barbara lives with her husband Tom Burstyn in Hawke’s Bay with a curmudgeonly cat. She spends her time reading, writing, walking, and corrupting her grandchildren with wild ideas about life, love, and imagination.

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Tree of Strangers

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Perhaps initially conceived out of closed-adoption activism, Barbara Sumner’s Tree of Strangers is, through her sharp intellect and exquisitely cinematic writing, a book of far greater social and literary impor ...more "

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