Acknowledgements

With thanks once more to Michael Bollen and the team at Wakefield Press—yet another beautiful book, as promised. To the ever-alert Penelope Curtin, who managed to eradicate all too many purple bits. If any of these are still clinging like barnacles, it wasn’t for lack of her sharp pencil.

And special thanks to Sue Woolfe, for reading this in an early draft, and who felt properly anxious about Bertha Banfield’s alter ego.

Thanks, too, to Jim Olsson for permission to use his image ‘Another Coral Sea’, one of the wonderful, witty Banfield series.