Thanks to my agents at Cameron Creswell, Sophie Hamley and (formerly) Siobhan Hannan, for their support and persistence. At Black Inc, Chris Feik and Denise O’Dea have offered empathetic, clear-headed and plain-speaking editorial advice. And a big thanks to the entire Black Inc team: thanks for having me! Thanks to Deborah Bogle at the Advertiser, Cath Kenneally at Radio Adelaide and the Wordfire team for giving me opportunities to try out earlier versions of Figurehead.
I can’t begin to name all the friends, acquaintances, colleagues and strangers who have helped in various ways to bring Figurehead to fruition, but a few of these people are: Phally Hing; L.K.; Catherine Crease; Brian Pike; Jim Schoff and Dee Jones; the rest of the Thursday crew: Russell Bartlett, Mark Caldicott, Guy Carney, Katherine Doube and Niki Vois; Nick Jose; Mick and Sue Treloar; Annabel Kain and Glenn Smith; Carli Pfitzner; Nigel Palmer; Cath Palmer; Lenore Coltheart.
To Mum, Dad and Morag, Lisa and Harry, Matt, Kathy, Kaitlin and Maddie, Ros and John, Emma and Rami, Naomi and Kieran, and to my grandparents – and all the rest of the clan – my gratitude and love.
Special and heartfelt thanks to Thomas Berg and Zoë Gill.
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