Gina Perry
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Gina Perry

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I'm a factual writer by day, fiction writer by night. I grew up loving books and reading. But it wasn't until I'd worked as a psychologist for a few years that I thought I'd try my hand at writng. After I started writing classes I began to get published in Australian newspapers, magazines and literary journals. One story that had always fascinated me was the Stanley Milgram obedience experiments. I always wondered what happened to the people involved who had been hoodwinked into thinking they had electrocuted someone. What happened to them afterwards? How would be involved in an experiment like that change you? I decided to find out and I described my surprising and troubling findings in an award winning 2008 ABC Radio National documentary and wrote the full story in my 2012 book Behind the Shock Machine. My next book, The Lost Boys, was an account of my search to discover more about he 1954 Robbers Cave experiments, often described as a real life version of Lord of the Flies. I tracked down some of the children who'd taken part - now aged in their 70s - as well as some of the original research team to discover how and why the experiment had come about and the impact on those involved. In the meantime, my fiction writing was on the back burner. But when Melbourne went into COVID lockdown I pulled a half finished novel out of my desk drawer and set to work, getting it into shape. I submitted the finished manuscript for the Harper Collins Banjo prize and it was shortlisted. I was subsequently offered a publishing contract and My Father the Whale will be published in Australia in June 2023.
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