Author: Gudrun Frerichs

Gudrun is a retired psychotherapist, full-time writer, and closet-gypsy. Born on a small fishing island close to Hamburg, Germany, she followed her husband with their three children to New Zealand, after detours over Switzerland and The Netherlands. It has been their home for the last 30 years.

Since her retirement she combined her passion for writing with her passion for challenging the invisibility of (older) women and those who fall through the gaps in our social and mental health systems. She does so by writing contemporary women’s fiction with a dash of adventure, a sprinkling of romance, and second chances at finding love if that’s where her heroines are headed.

Over the last years, Gudrun has written and published two non-fiction books about the pitfalls of relationships and four books in the romantic GOLDEN GIRLS SERIES, where she gives older women a voice and shows the rich life they still lead. Especially in romantic fiction and movies women who are past fifty, sixty, and yes, even seventy years are practically invisible. Yet they have not stopped loving and longing for closeness and meaningful relationships. They not only dream of adventures but also still have their fair shares of it.

Her new series flys under the flag of WOMEN OF OUR TIME explores universal issues women grapple with at time goes by.

They say, write about what you know. So this is what she does in her cottage in windy Wellington, with Steffie, the rescue dog, at her feet. Armed with a box of chocolates, a laptop, a cup of Earl Grey or the occasional glass of Merlot, she’s enjoying letting the characters in her books overcome (dangerous) obstacles before they find their well deserved Happy End. And finding it, they will. There are enough ugly drama and hardship in the world without her having to add to it.