She is known for her best-selling novels, including The House at Riverton, The Forgotten Garden, and The Distant Hours.

Her family moved several times before settling on Tamborine Mountain where she attended a small country school.

She enjoyed reading books from an early age, her favourites being those by Enid Blyton.

[2] During her undergraduate studies she wrote two full-length manuscripts (which are unpublished) before writing The House at Riverton (The Shifting Fog), which was published in 2006.

[3] As of October 2015[update], Morton had sold more than 16 million books in 42 countries, making her one of Australia's "biggest publishing exports".