At 13, she rejoined her family in Christchurch, New Zealand where her father was starting a new job as rector of Canterbury University College. At 8, she was sent to live in the Bahamas with some relatives in the hopes that the warm climate would help improve her health. Henry Rainsford Hulme, who led Britain’s atomic weapons research, and his wife, Hilda Marion Hulme, a marriage counsellor.Īt age 6, Hulme was diagnosed with tuberculosis and lived in and out of hospitals for most of her childhood. Juliet Marion Hulme was born on Oct 28, 1938, in London as the elder of two children to physicist Dr. Juliet Hulme aka Anne Perry (right) and Pauline Parker (left) on their way to a preliminary court hearing in 1954. Which is the greater?” Perry said in Anne Perry: Interiors, a 2009 German documentary on her life. The Oscar-nominated psychological drama film, which was directed by Sir Peter Jackson, well-known for the Lord of the Rings (2002–2003) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014), explores the obsessive friendship between Perry (Juliet Hulme), played by Kate Winslet, and Pauline Parker, her “partner-in-murder”.Īt the time of the film’s release, Perry’s identity as Juliet Hulme was not publicly known but once that information became public, Perry acknowledged her guilt but revealed she had gone ahead with the murder at Parker’s behest for fear that she may take her life.

In 1994, Perry was enjoying a successful career as a bestselling writer when a skeleton was revealed in her closet by the critically lauded film, Heavenly Creatures – a true story which follows her younger self (then known as Juliet Hulme) in the events that led up to her bludgeoning her best friend’s mother to death in New Zealand in 1954.

The Face of a Stranger by Anne Perry