Everything is Changed

by Nova Weetman

  Thanks to the Australia Council, who gave me money at just the right time to keep going. Grants are critical for writers so they can buy the time to concentrate on a project without having to scrabble around to live.

  I imagine editing a book that runs backwards can be rather frustrating, so a huge thanks goes to UQP editor and overseeing master Cathy Vallance, editor Jody Lee, and proofreader Kate O’Donnell for all being so patient and thorough and for making everything on the page much stronger. Thanks to designer Jo Hunt for creating another great cover, and to Kristy Bushnell for sharing my love of popping candy.

  And finally, thanks to my very lovely kids, Arlo and Evie.

  First published 2016 by University of Queensland Press

  PO Box 6042, St Lucia, Queensland 4067 Australia

  www.uqp.com.au

  uqp@uqp.uq.edu.au

  © Nova Weetman 2016

  This book is copyright. Except for private study, research, criticism or reviews, as permitted under the Copyright Act, no part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means without prior written permission. Enquiries should be made to the publisher.

  Cover design by Jo Hunt

  Cover photographs: man in tunnel by Eugene Sergeev/Colourbox; grass by Tubas/Colourbox

  Typeset in 10.5/15 pt Sabon by Post Pre-press Group, Brisbane

  This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body.

  Cataloguing-in-Publication Data

  National Library of Australia

  http://catalogue.nla.gov.au

  Weetman, Nova, author.

  Everything is changed / Nova Weetman.

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5416 1 (pbk)

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5781 0 (pdf)

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5782 7 (epub)

  ISBN 978 0 7022 5783 4 (kindle)

  For young adults.

  Young adult fiction.

  Friendship – Fiction.

  A823.4

  University of Queensland Press uses papers that are natural, renewable and recyclable products made from wood grown in sustainable forests. The logging and manufacturing processes conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin.