Lauren Kim Roche

Lauren Kim Roche (born 5 November 1961) is a New Zealand author and general practitioner.

Early life and education Roche was born in Miramar, New Zealand, a suburb of Wellington. Leaving school at aged 15, Roche did various jobs from sex work and baking to cleaning at Wellington Hospital.

In 1991, she obtained her medical degree from the University of Otago. Life on the Line, a sequel to Bent Not Broken, was published in 2001.

In 2009, Bent Not Broken was released as an audiobook by Expanded Technologies Incorporated.

The autobiographies chronicle Roche's life experiences which include: child sex abuse, rape, travel from New Zealand to United States as a ship stowaway, 1970's music groupie, prostitution, homosexuality, depression, suicide, bankruptcy, drug abuse, alcoholism, med school, author, radio personality, medical doctor, and special needs children.

In the late 1990s, Dr. Roche and Sharon Raynor hosted the weekly one-hour radio talk show, Doctor, Doctor. The show fielded a wide span of questions from the listeners encompassing topics such as medical issues, sexual orientation, depression, and discrimination.

Roche retired from practising medicine in 2019.

Roche released her debut novel Mila and the Bone Man - published by Quentin Wilson Publishing - in September 2022.

Publications

Autobiography 1999. Bent Not Broken (Autobiography 1). New Zealand 2001. Life on the Line (Autobiography 2). New Zealand 2011. Bent Not Broken (Autobiography 3). Kindle USA 2022. Mila and the Bone Man (Fiction 1). New Zealand

Autobiography audio book 2009. Bent Not Broken (Autobiography Audio Book). United States

Articles 2000. Depression New Zealand 2003. Grief New Zealand

Novels 2022. Mila and the Bone Man