Amanda Hampson always dreamed of writing; but it wasn’t until age 50 after a complicated life and ‘all sorts of jobs’ that she was able to publish her first novel
Name: Amanda Hampson
Age: 66
Debut novelist at 50
I had always thought that I would be a writer. I grew up in a relatively isolated place in New Zealand. My parents always read. We used to go to the library every Friday. That was a really important part of my life. I had signed up as a cadet journalist at the local newspaper thinking ‘“OK, this is the way you get in”. But that was all – pfft – gone.
