Joan Rosier-Jones

[4] She has lived in London, Wellington, and Auckland for 30 years and currently resides with her husband Fergus in Whanganui, a river city in the North Island of New Zealand.

New Zealand writer Fiona Kidman described it as a novel "marked by prodigious and impressive research ... immensely satisfying and thought-provoking.

( Daily Telegraph),[8] Her third novel Mother Tongue (1996) is set in an imagined future where a Maori dictatorship is ruling New Zealand.

It features 'Old English' Thomas Butler, Earl of Ormond, is waiting for his Queen, Elizabeth and is a story, of romance and political intrigue.

[9] In the mid eighties, Rosier-Jones wrote a play "The Stars go Down" which was performed at Auckland University's The Kenneth Maidment Theatre,[10] Wanganui Repertory Company[11] and off-Broadway in New York.