by Kim Kane
To Steve Merson, Archivist at Lighthouses of Victoria Inc, who so graciously answered my questions and who is not in any way responsible for my creative interpretations of his facts.
To Laini and Crawf, for helping with the law (where I’d obviously skipped class).
To the Hathaway-haters and Guinnerang, for their enthusiasm, combined sense of direction and very fine company.
And finally, to my colleagues at UGL, who have been so supportive of the part-time position and who laugh at (most of ) my jokes.
That does not really leave a lot of mystique, but luckily I’m not that kind of person.
*Mog Garnaut would like to acknowledge José Saramago’s novel, The Double, which she very much enjoyed.
About the Author
photo by Sonia Payes
Kim Kane was born in London in a bed bequeathed by Wordsworth to ‘. . . a writer, a painter or a poet’. Despite this auspicious beginning, she went on to practise law.
In 2004, Kim threw her unbridled materialism to the wind and started to write. Kim now works exactly part-time as a lawyer and exactly part-time as a writer and the combination is perfect.
Kim has noticed that most proper children’s writers like chickens. Kim hates chickens. She does, however, like being backstage, her nephew, Angus, and, if she is strictly honest, most fatty snacks. Above all of these things (except perhaps Angus), Kim likes telling stories, and on a good writing day she wouldn’t trade her life for anything.
Pip: the story of Olive is Kim’s first novel. Writing it very nearly killed her.