Born in
Dunedin, Boock is a member of a sporting family. She is the sister of four brothers, among them former New Zealand cricket representative
Stephen Boock and sports journalist
Richard Boock, and has herself represented her province of Otago at cricket. She studied at the
University of Otago, after which she began working as an editor and publisher, co-founding
Longacre Press in the city in 1994. Boock's early writing consisted of plays and short stories, but she turned to novel-writing shortly after leaving university. ==References==