Thanks also for the great editing and proofreading efforts of Clementine Edwards, Fay Helfenbaum and Nikki Lusk, who shared their wonderful expertise but also demonstrated exactly the right balance of patience and willingness to kick my bum. Thanks to Louisa Maggio for my beautiful The Cowgirl cover (if you could please Photoshop every picture of me ever taken, that would be awesome).
Loads of thanks to my wonderful family and friends – it is a joy and a privilege to have known and loved them for so long. To my dear mates Sarah, Lara and Trish who have shared my life with me, thank you. I hope we can share another thirty-five years. Massive thanks and appreciation must also go to my new writing friends, the brilliant and generous WA crew who have supported me in my first year of publication: Rachael Johns, Tess Woods, Fiona Palmer and Jennie Jones; and some fabulous writers from further afield, who have made me feel so welcome: Cathryn Hein, Alli Sinclair, Victoria Purman and Vanessa Carnevale.
Huge thanks to Auds and Fin for taking me under their wing, teaching me about love, hugs and laughter, making me coffee, and writing me love letters from Chris Hemsworth. Many thanks also to my lovely husband Marty for supplying me with wine and for having a proper job so I don’t have to, and to my dog and writing partner Possum, for eating my house, and for feeling bad about it later.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthea Hodgson is a country girl from the Western Australian wheatbelt. She has worked as a radio producer in three states and now resides in Perth with her husband and two children.
ALSO BY ANTHEA HODGSON
The Drifter
MICHAEL JOSEPH
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ISBN: 978-1-760-14272-8
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