[3] Daley has worked as journalist, in public health, and as a screenwriter, working on the television dramas Universal Drive, The Shadow Trader, At the End of the Day, Pristine.
[2] Daley has published three novels, The Revelations of Carey Ravine (2016),[4] Turning the Stones (2014),[5] and The Strange Letter Z (1996).
[6] The Revelations of Carey Ravine and Turning the Stones are both historical fiction, set in 18th-century England and Ireland.
Her first novel, The Strange Letter Z, takes place in Mexico and New Zealand in the 1980s.
[9] In 2005 she was awarded the Creative New Zealand Louis Johnson New Writers’ Bursary.