I saw this a long time ago when I was looking at notorious cases in history in the crime library, and I was shocked at the time. After watching the movie today, I looked up background information on wikipedia.
Ann Perry (Juliet Hulme) published her first book in 1979 and has published nearly 50 Victorian detective novels. I don't know how many of these books are her imagination, and how many are her personal experiences. Her official website, the introduction she wrote herself, all skipped what happened in New Zealand in 1954.
In an interview in 2006, she denied that she had a gay relationship with Pauline at the time. She believed that they were just very close.
Pauline has never given any interviews, and she has always expressed a strong sense of remorse for the crimes committed that year.
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