ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Thank you Meredith Curnow, Ben Ball and Rachel Scully of Penguin Random House.
Thank you to the Australia Council for the Arts.
Thank you Jenny Green, Lucy Treloar, Dana Miltins, Clare Strahan, Trish Bolton.
Thank you Andrea McNamara.
Thank you Toni Jordan, Heather Rose, Nick Waterman, Lee Kofman.
Thank you Sheila Drummond.
Thank you Bridget Busuttil for teaching me how to make quince wine. In the end, mine looked like dish water, but yours was rose gold with a soft, slight fragrance – not too tart, nor too sweet.
Kate Richards is a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction and poetry. She has a medical degree with honours and works part-time in genetics. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Madness: A Memoir and the Penguin Special Is There No Place for Me?
ALSO BY KATE RICHARDS
Madness: A Memoir
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