Celeste Walters: Hello, my name is Celeste Walters. Walters is English. Celeste is French. And I am Australian. My mother had chosen Susan for her first born, but my father, a musician, had found the name Celeste, lurking inside the pages of some ancient tome and proclaimed it flowed like music. Of course, the French language is musical. Think of names like Luis, Felipe, Michelle, Celeste where the stress on the second syllable turns a word into music.

Celeste means heavenly. At the age of seven, this led to a pronouncement that henceforth I would be Anne. However, the same child would become a writer. And what better name could one draw on for a writer than Celeste.