Caroline Overington

"It's the sort of book you read in two days, then talk about for weeks afterwards."

CAROLINE OVERINGTON is one of Australia's most successful writers and journalists.

She has written eleven books, including the runaway bestseller, The One Who Got Away. Her 12th title, The Ones You Trust, will be published by HarperCollins Australia in 2018.

Caroline has worked as a journalist for The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, and The Australian Women's Weekly, where she has profiled many of the world's most famous women, including Oprah Winfrey and Hillary Clinton. Please see the gallery for some of her clips.

Caroline has twice won Australia's most prestigious award for journalism, the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism; she has also won the Sir Keith Murdoch award for Journalistic Excellence; Australia's richest prize for business writing, the Blake Dawson Prize; and the Davitt Award for crime writing.

Her books have earned critical and commercial success: two of Caroline's novels - I Came To Say Goodbye and The One Who Got Away - were short-listed for Book of the Year at the Australian Book Industry Awards; her book about the UN oil for food scandal, Kickback has been optioned for film.

Caroline lives in Sydney with her teenage twins and an adored blue dog.