Rebecca Sparrow

Rebecca Sparrow is the author of Find Your Tribe (And Nine Other Things I Wish I'd Known in High School), The Girl Most Likely, Joel & Cat Set the Story Straight, and The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay. She writes a weekly column for popular website Mamamia.com.au. Over the past 20 years Rebecca Sparrow has earned a living selling touch lamps, working as a nanny, a travel writer, a television publicist, a marketing executive, a magazine editor, a television scriptwriter, a newspaper columnist and a secret shopper (once). In her spare time she is an ambassador of The Pyjama Foundation which sends ‘reading angels’ into the homes of foster children and GIVIT which matches donated items to those people most in need. Rebecca’s first novel, The Girl Most Likely, was published in 2003 and is currently in development to be turned into a feature film. Her second novel, The Year Nick McGowan Came to Stay, was published in 2006 and debuted as a stage play at La Boite Theatre in Brisbane in 2007. Her third novel, Joel & Cat Set the Story Straight, was co-written with Nick Earls and published in 2007. Her fourth book, Find Your Tribe (and 9 other things I wish I’d known in high school), was released in March 2010.Rebecca currently writes a weekly column for popular website Mamamia.com.au. She lives in Brisbane with her family.