Myfanwy Jones is the author of novels The Rainy Season, finalist for the Melbourne Prize for Literature’s Best Writing Award; Leap, shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award; and Cool Water. She also co-authored the bestselling Parlor Games for Modern Families, awarded ABIA Book of the Year for Older Children in 2010, and published in the UK, China, Italy and the US. She lives and writes beside a creek on Wurundjeri country. Her fourth novel, Night Holds Its Own, will be published in 2027.