Helen Thurloe: books that changed me

Updated October 5 2016 - 11:08am, first published September 23 2016 - 10:00pm
Author Helen Thurloe. Photo: Michelle Tremolada
Author Helen Thurloe. Photo: Michelle Tremolada

Helen Thurloe is an award-winning Australian writer and poet. In her debut novel, Promising Azra (Allen & Unwin), a Sydney teenager discovers that her parents are arranging for her to marry a cousin in Pakistan whom she has never met. Her novel is based on extensive research into forced child marriage in Australia and overseas.

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