Christine Keighery (who also writes as Chrissie Perry) is the author of more than 35 books for children and young adults. Christine wrote 13 books in the hugely commercially successful Go Girl! series for children 6+ (Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing). These books have been published in ten countries. Her young adult title, Whisper (Hardie Grant Children’s Publishing), was shortlisted for the Children’s Book Council of Australia Awards and the WA Premiers Awards and won an International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY) and a White Raven award.   In 2023, she released her first novel for adults, a psychological thriller, The Half Brother (Ultimo Press).