Thinking back on her action-packed life, Kiwi musician and artist Katy Soljak always knew some of it would not have been out of place in a dramatic novel filled with colourful characters.
There was the teenage marriage to an alluring American musician 20 years her senior, whom she met in a record store on Auckland’s Queen Street.
Then when the relationship went sour, she fled across the States with her young daughter in tow, her guitar, a few dollars and the phone number