Acknowledgements
The writing of this novel began when I was fortunate to have been a recipient of a residency at Cove Park, Scotland. I would like to thank Cove Park, all the staff, and all my fellow residents for their support and encouragement.
Many thanks to Lisa Forrest, Dean Ayton, Sophia Pappas, Rick Halsam, Andrew Nette, Marilen Tabacco, Bill Sultan and Tim Sultan for sharing their stories and experiences.
I am fortunate as well to have the support and encouragement of everyone at Curtis Brown Australia, at Rogers, Coleridge and White, at Smartartists, and at Allen & Unwin.
As ever, I am so very grateful for the support of my family, of Jane Palfreyman, and of Wayne van der Stelt. Muchas muchas gracias. And much much love.
This book is dedicated to Angela Savage, a fellow-traveller in this literary life. Thank you, Ange, for giving me that most gentle but most purposeful of shoves in the right direction.
Extract from Walt Whitman’s ‘The Sleepers’ taken from The Complete Poems, edited by Francis Murphy (Penguin Classics, 1986)
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