In her latest book, The American Boys, Olivia Spooner has written a wartime love story inspired by the arrival of the US troops in Wellington in 1942. Twenty-thousand American troops were sent to keep New Zealand safe, but their reception was far from warm. Many of the men did endear themselves though to young, New Zealand women.
Olivia Spooner was until recently the owner of Booklover in Milford, and now writing full-time. She’s the author of two historical fiction novels, The Girl from London and The Songbirds of Florence.
Photo: Supplied / Olivia Spooner
