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Pauline
Grogan
Biography
Pauline’s life has
had many twists and turns. The experiences of 12 years as a Catholic teaching nun and 23 years
of Marriage (with 4 children in 3 years and 9 months) led her to ask the question, “Who Are
You When No One Sees?”
At 50, after being
involved in the lives of families whose children who had had a stroke, Pauline studied for her
first Degree researching the “Impact of Trauma on Siblings.”
In 2005, in her 60th year, she took to the stage for the first time when her life story
premiered as a One Woman Theatre Play "500 Letters". Her play brought to life some of the stories
in her two published books. She toured the country in 2006 and Creative New Zealand gave a grant
for another tour in 2008. She has performed the play over 50 times in centres all over NZ to
enthusiastic reviews.
In 2009 Pauline received the ‘North Shore Woman of the Year’ award from the North Shore Women’s
Centre. Pauline is constantly contacted by people who are looking for new meaning and purpose in
their lives.
She continues to ask the question, “Who Are You When No One Sees?”
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Pauline's Recent News
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One Woman Theatre Play
Pauline's one-woman play "500 Letters", which received
critical acclaim in New Zealand has been submitted to the 9th Women Playwrights International
Conference hosted by Riksteatern, Stockholm, Sweden (August 2012)
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Books by Pauline
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Beyond The Veil
At the age of seventeen, Pauline Grogan entered the convent
and seven years later took her final vows. At age 29, desecrated and bewildered, she found herself
back within the secular world, having to begin her life all over again.
When Penguin Books published Pauline's
Autobiography they described her book as:
"The Extraordinary Story of an Ordinary New
Zealand Woman - "Touching, inspirational and sometimes shocking it is the tale of survival and the
triumph of love and faith in the face of abuse and apparently insurmountable
odds".
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more>>
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A View from Within...
is Pauline Grogan's highly anticipated book about the life of James Lynch, a
heroic and inspirational person who has touched many peoples lives.
" 'A View from
Within' is one of the most inspirational,
spiritual memoirs I have ever read. James Lynch was indeed paralysed for most of his life, but in
reading about it, I feel I have walked with a luminous spirit - one who, by acceptance of
suffering, transcended it." - Author
Robert Waldren, Boston, USA
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for more>>
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