Over the next couple of decades, she published three works of non-fiction and nine novels which sold in excess of 500,000 copies around the world.
During this time she became a columnist for the New Zealand Woman’s Weekly, a magazine she had previously edited, before moving to New Zealand Woman’s Day where as well as writing about handbags and husbands, she was Travel Editor until COVID-19 kicked the entire magazine group to the curb about which she is not at all bitter. Shut up. She isn’t.
Luckily Sarah-Kate had recently launched herself into the medium of television, starting off writing scripts for popular NZ soap opera Shortland St; moving on to Series 2 and 3 of Australian co-production 800 Words; adapting someone else’s novel for the thriller, The Bad Seed (for which she won Best Script at the NZ Television Awards 2019); and creating and writing her own thriller, Canadian co-production The Sounds, shot in New Zealand in 2019, going to air 2020.
For a woman who long made a living out of writing rom-com novels about food, her penchant for thrillers may seem surprising but as it turns out she is quite windswept and mysterious on the inside.
However her next show is a drama set on another magnificent piece of New Zealand coastline and she is also working on a traumedy called If You See Kay, loosely based on her 2014 tongue-in-cheek memoir, Screw You Dolores.
Even if I’m never quite sure where I am.
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From the Womans Day archives
This once war-torn country between Vietnam and Thailand is now an emerging tourist mecca, rich in history and food. What more, the Cambodians have the best smiles in the world.
When the Ginger (my own personal big gutsy red) and I found ourselves in Adelaide for a while, we did some serious exploring of this famous grape-growing area.
Many of the best food spots in Melbourne are hidden behind bland doors down its darkened laneways, which makes discovering them even more delicious.
Like many a Kiwi with friends and family in Sydney, I visit often and thought I knew the place quite well. Then I met Richard Graham from mysydneydetour.com and saw the city from a completely different angle.
