[1] Her father, Gunter Warner, had moved to New Zealand from Germany in May 1939, as a 19-year-old Jewish refugee, and his parents and grandparents were murdered in the Holocaust.
[6] In 1998 she had a short story, "If You Step On A Crack", published in the collection Penguin 25 New Fiction edited by Graham Beattie and Stephanie Johnson.
[10] She had completed the novel, begun years earlier, as part of her Masters of Creative Writing at Auckland University of Technology.
"[14] Catherine Robertson, reviewing the book for The New Zealand Listener, described it as "an ambitious novel in both content and style", but concluded "it's well worth the extra effort because Warner manages to bring her many plot threads together in an ending that's both moving and satisfying".
[16] Paula Green positively reviewed the chapbook, saying "this hallucinogenic, rollercoaster, gut punch of book runs through me like fire".