Places so different as Ayers Rock or the Great Barrier Reef or the Daintree Forest and towns such as Seal Rocks or Byron Bay and then, the capital city, Melbourne; apart from the native people, the Aborigines. This is a very special trip for its protagonists, who at the end of the book, decide to go further in their relationship.

 She has written books, theatre plays and screenplays. She is best known though for her novels and children's picturebooks. 'The Jazz Files' is the first novel in her mystery series, Poppy Denby Investigates, and is set in 1920s London. It has been shortlisted for the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger Award, 2016. Book 2, The Kill Fee, sees Poppy continue to investigate murders and mysteries in the Jazz Age. Published by Lion Fiction.

Born in Whitby, Ontario, Collins earned a Bachelor of Arts from York University and has held a wide range of writing and editorial jobs in the Canadian publishing and magazine industry.^[2] The publisher at Knopf Random Canada Publishing Group and vice-president of Random House of Canada, Collins has also written the award winning The Story of The CIA Brainwashing Experiments in Canada.^[3][4]In the Sleep Room explored the history of Dr.Ewen Cameron and Montreal's Allen Memorial Institute and was made into a movie directed by Anne Wheeler in 1998.