About The Author
Denise Tobin Shine is a retired school teacher and business woman, who has been interested in research and writing throughout her life. She published her critically acclaimed biographical novel The Undertakers’ Mother in 2012. Based on her grandparents’ lives in Ireland and Australia, they were the parents of the founders of Tobin Brothers Funerals in Melbourne. The Undertakers’ Mother has enjoyed great success and has taken on a life of its own, being read and enjoyed all over the world. It has flushed out some new information about family members including the discovery of ‘a missing link’ branch of the family tree in America.
Denise and Frank, her husband of fifty years, have cruised the inland waterways of Britain for twenty years. The remarkable role of canals, during the 19th century Industrial Revolution, inspired the writing of Jeremiah’s Trunk.
Denise enjoys music, gardening and reading as well as travelling. She and Frank live in Bayside Brighton in Melbourne and together they revel in family life which includes nine grandchildren. For complete relaxation they love to escape to their holiday home and boat on the Gippsland Lakes at Paynesville.