Mary-Anne O'Connor



Mary-Anne O'Connor is an Australian novelist.

Biography
O'Connor grew up in Wahroonga, Sydney, the daughter of Dorn and Australian artist Kevin Best. In 2015 she published her first novel Gallipoli Street through HQ, later acquired by HarperCollins Australia. O'Connor has published seven subsequent novels through HarperCollins: Worth Fighting For (2016), War Flower (2017), In A Great Southern Land (2019), Where Fortune Lies (2020), Sisters of Freedom (2021), Dressed By Iris (2022), and Never to Surrender (2023). O'Connor's new novel is contracted with Penguin Random House, At the Going Down of the Sun (2024) and is receiving critical acclaim. Her first Christmas romance, Mary Christmas, will be released in October 2024.