Olivia has recently moved from England to New Zealand. Trained as a Classical archaeologist, she’s excavated sites in the UK and Greece. A former resident of Edinburgh, Scotland, her dubious claim to fame is that she used to go for coffee in Nicholson’s at the same time as J K Rowling was writing the first Harry Potter book on the other side of the room. She speaks a number of dead languages with varying degrees of fluency, and travels extensively in search of inspiration for her stories.