Christine Sykes

About The Author

Christine Sykes grew up in the same street as the Whitlam family in Sydney's Cabramatta which she recounted in her  bestselling memoir Gough and Me ( Ventura 2021). She is a champion of creating opportunity for those less fortunate through her work with the public service and more recently with the charity Dress for Success on which her first novel The Changing Room was based. 

Christine's Aunt Peggy was a keen tap dancer and this story is dedicated to her. 

Books by Christine Sykes

Gough and Me

My Journey from Cabramatta to China and beyond

By Christine Sykes
When Gough Whitlam moves into her street in Cabramatta in 1957, eight-year-old Christine has little idea how her new neighbour, one of the most visionary and polarising political leaders of Australia, would shape the direction of her life. Born to working-class parents and living in a fibro house...
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The Changing Room

A story of hope, second chances and the power of female friendship

By Christine Sykes
‘Vain trifles as they seem, clothes have, they say, more important offices than to merely keep us warm. They change our view of the world and the world’s view of us.'  - Virginia Woolf   Anna is in her sixties with her dream job and the man to match. Claire is a fourty-six-year-old philanthropis...
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