About Pip

Having grown up in Sydney, Philippa (aka Pip) now lives on the Central Coast with her lovely husband and three – often lovely – children.

Pip has had many a job over the years: a checkout-chick at Best and Less, a Pizza Hut 'waitress' (girls weren't allowed to actually make the pizzas in the 80s - not that that stopped her!), a Playbill girl (Programs! Get your programs!) and a funeral singer, just to name a few.

In the real world, she's an educator. She currently teaches secondary English and lectures at the University of Newcastle.

Her Great Aunty was an Olympian, her dad invented Pavlova Magic and in her spare time she paints pictures on the wall.

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Girl Detectives Just Wanna Have Fun is Pip’s first novel.