BOLD MOVE

There’s nothing like a pandemic to spark a change of plans. In the case of author Catherine Robertson, that meant permanently relocating from the Wellington suburb of Seatoun she and her husband Dave had lived in for 27 years to their holiday home in Hawke’s Bay.

The couple, who co-own a Wellington business consultancy, built the house in 2016 with the idea of one day making it their permanent base. “But we were thinking we’d do so in the next three to five years,” says Catherine, who has written seven novels, including her