John Carstensen is a Danish born Kiwi who has also lived in Canada and China. He has spent most of his life in New Zealand and now resides in the seaside city of Tauranga. He is an English teacher by profession, but retired and devoting more time to writing and fishing. His short stories have appeared in various New Zealand and Australian literary journals and magazines. He has published a collection of stories in 2019 and is busily collating more collections.
His new book brings his longstanding interest in New Zealand history and writing fiction together in this historical novel. As a Christian writer, his aims to create a protagonist who grapples with spiritual and moral issues and, in the course of the narrative arc, develops strong Christian character.
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