When Sue McCauley’s first book Other Halves hit New Zealand shelves in 1982, it caused a big stir. Sue wrote about a woman wanting a better life for herself than being married with a child in the suburbs and ultimately led to a relationship with a troubled Maˉori teenager.
It was semi-autobiographical and Sue has been with her partner Pat Hammond for 50 years, since she met him as a lost and mistreated teen. “When I wrote it, not for a minute did I actually think