About the Author

Now in retirement, Denise Tobin Shine is a former primary school teacher and for many years owned and operated caravan parks with her husband. During this time she wrote an Accreditation Manual and Emergency Management Plan, both of which helped to stimulate her love of research and writing. She always enjoyed writing as a child and over the years, while attending creative writing courses, has written several short stories many of which have an historical theme. She enjoys travelling overseas and her love of canal boats in England resulted in a published article in The Victorian Senior.

With the original concept being a small booklet to accompany a family reunion, The Undertakers’ Mother is the result of four years of intensive writing and six years research of scraping the roots of family trees, searching for hidden morsels of interest.

When time allows, Denise potters in the garden, reads and enjoys classical music. In her youth, she performed in many amateur musical productions. Denise lives in Melbourne, Australia, with Frank, her husband of 41 years. With four children and eight grandchildren under nine, for relaxation they love to escape to their boat on the Gippsland Lakes at Paynesville.