Acknowledgements

I AM INDEBTED TO Les Pitt (Daylesford and District Historical Society) for the many details — from the mundane to the extraordinary — of Daylesford life in the 1860s.

I thank the State Library of Victoria for ready access to its collection of newspaper records and historical publications.

To Bob Gott, my gratitude for the many weighty discussions of plot.

And to Henry Rosenbloom and the staff at Scribe — including Anna Thwaites, for her keen-eyed editing — thank you for a delightful collaboration.