I’d firstly like to thank Mum and Dad for their unwavering support. Everything I am, I owe to them. Thanks to Carly and Jacqui, for being older, wiser and always interested in their little sister’s strange antics.
Huge amounts of gratitude to everyone at Text, but especially to Michael Heyward for taking a punt on me, my lovely editor Alison Arnold, publicist Stephanie Stepan and rights guru Anne Beilby.
I’m very lucky to be surrounded by interested friends, work colleagues and family, all of whom have spurred me on for years with the simple question: How’s the book going? Thanks particularly to Emah Fox, who always insisted I was a writer, even when I didn’t believe it myself, and to Andrew McDonald for being my sounding board. Thanks to Carly, Amy Tsilemanis and Michelle Calligaro, who were very kind readers of my early drafts and, finally, thanks to my writers’ week buddies, especially Jason Cotter for letting us invade his farm.