Deirdre Cash was an Australian novelist and torch singer, who wrote her novels under the pseudonym Criena Rohan.
Background
Deirdre Cash was born in Melbourne into an Irish-Australian Catholic family. Her father Leo Evaristus Cash, a salesman, had been active in the 1930s New Theatre movement in Melbourne, while her mother Valerie (née Walsh) was an operetta singer.
Career
Deirdre boarded at the Convent of Mercy, Mornington, Victoria. After matriculating, she enrolled at what became the Melba Conservatorium of Music. She remarried in 1956, to a coastal seaman, Otto Ole Distler Olsen, with whom she lived at various ports.