Author: Catherine Dean
Catherine Dean is a character created by Sam Kane in his 2025 debut novel In Living Memory.
Biography
Catherine was born in Melbourne in 1955 and educated in public schools in Kew. She studied a Bachelor of Applied Science at Monash University, majoring in European Literature and Psychology, graduating in 1977 with distinction.
She began writing her first novel immediately after graduation while working at the university library, but despite several attempts over many years to keep the narrative going, it didn’t really take shape until mid-1986 when she was living in London.
Upon returning to Australia in 1989, she all but finished her draft manuscript, but it wasn’t until July 1993 that In Medio Dierum was independently published.
Books
Catherine’s debut novel, In Medio Dierum (In the Middle of Days) is a strange love story. It’s a narrative collage of materials drawn from different sources: it’s part personal diary, part unfinished novel, part reflective commentary, part PhD thesis. It follows the story of Imogen, a young, intelligent, beautiful woman, adopted as a baby by a wealthy bohemian couple, then tragically orphaned in her middle teens. It traces her university years, her studies and travels in Europe, and her eventual return to Melbourne to the people and places that helped shape her brilliant philosophy of life.
It’s a coming-of-age story, a love story, a story of forgiveness and regret, a meditation on intellectual passion.
The release of In Medio Dierum under the Phenomenology Press imprint is scheduled for 2032.
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