Blog – Elaine Blick

Speech given at the Call of the Kookaburra Book Launch

Posted: April 2, 2024

Excerpt from speech given at Call of the Kookaburra Book Launch on the 24th February 2024. ‘When I came to the end of A Shining Path I knew the story could not finish there. There had to be a third and final book to complete the tale of the three convict women, Louise, Peggy and

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Radio New Zealand: Stories of unmarried mothers in the 1960s

By Elaine Blick

Posted: April 1, 2024

Elaine Blick’s mother worked at an adoption home for unmarried mothers in the 1960s and their memories of that time are woven into a new novel. It’s set in a fictional adoption home called Sunnyvale in Auckland, where Janice is one of the young mothers who have to decide whether to keep or adopt out

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Welcome to my blog

By Elaine Blick

Posted: March 30, 2024

Welcome. My name is Elaine Blick, author of the books Where the Bellbird Sings, No White Flowers, Please, When This War Is Over, First Names Only, Hearts Set Free, Miranda, KATEY THE BEACH CAT, Rose And Peach At The Beach, Beyond the Horizon, Here Today, Gone Tomorrow, A Shining Path, Call of the Kookaburra, and

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So why did I take up novel writing?

By Elaine Blick

Posted: March 30, 2024

In 2010 our family home in Nelson had just been sold and I wanted to preserve its memory, but in an imaginative way, so I wrote Where the Bellbird Sings and followed this up the next year with No White Flowers, Please This was based on my mother’s life and set partly in NZ partly

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