Nina Wan is a former journalist. She was born in Shanghai and moved to Australia as a child. The inspiration for The Albatross came from an inner-city golf course in Melbourne, where she once found unexpected joys at a time of formidable challenges.

Primrose Li is torn - between her past and her present, her
first love and her current love, duty and desire, fear and
freedom. One day, as she's almost come apart at the seams,
she takes an unexpected detour to her local golf course.
Slowly, this sport - which she is terrible at - becomes her
meditation and her cure.