Born in New Zealand, Heather Mor­ris is an inter­na­tion­al num­ber one best­selling author, who is pas­sion­ate about sto­ries of sur­vival, resilience, and hope. In 2003, while work­ing in a large pub­lic hos­pi­tal in Mel­bourne, Heather was intro­duced to an elder­ly gen­tle­man who ​‘might just have a sto­ry worth telling.’ The day she met Lale Sokolov changed both their lives. Heather used Lale’s sto­ry as the basis for The Tat­tooist of Auschwitz, which has sold six mil­lion copies. Her fol­low-up nov­el, Cilka­’s Jour­ney, has sold more than a mil­lion copies worldwide.