ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thanks to Creative New Zealand and the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

Thanks to Philip D’Ath for his invaluable technical proofreading. Any mistakes are mine.

Thanks also to Toshiba New Zealand for supplying computer equipment during my residency at the University of Iowa.

Congratulations to:
Tyler Ranger, Vienna Smith, Ethan Rix, Erica Fogarty, Victoria Dean and Ben O’Hara, whose names have all been used as the names of characters in this book.