Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith. A memoir by Keith Ovenden

In 'Bill & Shirley', Keith Ovenden, takes an intimate and candid look at the lives of his parents-in-law, the Wellington power couple, Bill Sutch and Shirley Smith. Each led their lives in the spotlight and were influential in their own right. Bill Sutch, was a brilliant left-wing economist and civil servant, who had a painful fall from grace. He was arrested, but later acquitted for espionage. While Shirley Smith was a glass ceiling breaker, with a name for championing the underdog as a lawyer, when few women worked in the field.