Her television credits include Home and Away, Always Greener, McLeod's Daughters and Pacific Drive.
McConnochie lives in Sydney with her partner, the novelist, James Bradley.
The first, Coldwater, transplants the Brontë sisters to a penal colony off the coast of New South Wales, using their plight to explore different approaches to art, life and love.
[2] Her second novel, The Snow Queen is set in Adelaide and tells the story of a former Russian ballerina stranded in post-war Australia.
It saw McConnochie voted one of the Best Young Australian Novelists by The Sydney Morning Herald in 2004.