I would like to thank Kevin Broadfoot, Special Projects Manager at Smith & Caughey’s department store in Auckland, for very kindly allowing me to go through the store’s archives, and Cecilie Geary, who wrote Celebrating 125 Years, 1880-2005: Smith & Caughey’s (Auckland: Smith & Caughey’s, 2005). Cecilie also provided me with information based on her experiences as a fashion copywriter in department stores in New Zealand and overseas.
Thanks also to my mother, Pat Challinor, and my aunt, Elaine Stuart, who shared memories of Orakei, of Milne & Choyce, George Court’s, John Court’s, Smith & Caughey’s and Farmers department stores in the 1950s, and of the trams, and of Auckland in general.
I’d also like to thank Lorain Day and the team at HarperCollins who, as always, have been helpful, supportive and enthusiastic, and Anna Rogers who, without fail, always manages to make my books just that little bit better.
About the Author
Deborah Challinor is a freelance writer and historian living in Hamilton, author of the bestselling historical trilogy—Tamar, White Feathers and Blue Smoke—the number one bestsellers Union Belle and Kitty, and several nonfi ction titles, including Who’ll Stop the Rain? and Grey Ghosts.
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