Personal Life
Cowley has been married three times. First at 20 years old to dairy farmer Ted Cowley, with whom she had four children: Sharon, Edward, Judith and James. After their marriage ended in 1967, Cowley married Malcolm Mason, a Wellington writer and accountant who died in 1985. In 1989, Cowley married her current husband, Terry Coles. She lived with him, and an assortment of animals, for many years in the Marlborough Sounds, but in 2004 they moved to a wharf apartment in Wellington so Coles could be nearer medical services. As Coles' health deteriorated, Wellington's stairs and traffic became too much for him, and the couple moved again to Featherston, where Cowley now lives. She has 13 grandchildren and is still writing full-time.
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