6/10/2023 0 Comments I am not esther![]() Her stories often involve troubled adolescents engaged in outdoor activities. Her first book was a small reader and picture book for young children and she started to write for teenagers in 1993. Beale's first stories were written for the children's radio programme Grandpa's Place. She taught at Melville High School in Hamilton from the mid 1980s to the late 1990s. Beale grew up in the town and attended Inglewood High School From 1958, before attending Victoria University, Wellington and Christchurch Teachers' College, where she met her husband, Tim (Timothy Gerald Beale). She was born in Inglewood, Taranaki, New Zealand, on the farm where her father was born. ![]() Biography īeale was one of six children of a dairy farmer, Cedric Corney, and of a teacher and author, Estelle Corney (née Cook). Fleur Una Maude Beale ONZM (née Corney, born 22 February 1945) is a New Zealand teenage fiction writer, best known for her novel I Am Not Esther, which has been published worldwide. ![]()
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