Following the establishment of a career leading human services, Denise Picton retrained in business and established a management consulting firm that has worked across Australia and Asia for over thirty years. In her twenties she published short fiction in literary journals, and returned to writing to begin work on a series of novels in her fifties. The Knighton Women's Compendium is her second novel. [Source: Hardie Grant](https://publishing.hardiegrant.com/en-au/authors/denise-picton)