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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
My sincerest thanks to everyone who encouraged me to write this book, and to those who gave feedback along the way. Roxanne Bodsworth, Sean Doyle, Brian Cook, Sam Jordison, Karl French, Alan Wilkinson, and the staff of The Literary Consultancy provided insightful and valuable critiques of earlier drafts. Helping offset the initial trauma of reading said critiques (there can be no more difficult thing for a first-time author than to page through the lists of reasons as to why your manuscript doesn’t yet work, as necessary as that may be) were Nicolle Brown, Delecia Bright, Anne Kleinitz, Rich and Sal Kane, Dane and Jules Horsfall, Rob and Alisa Greidanus, Andrew Clift, Theane Theophilos and Erica Cassano. They gave me the confidence to keep writing during the three years it took. Arthur Jackson insisted that I pen a book, but demanded, in his own words, at least a mention in it. (So, Arthur: here it is!) And Melanie Thompson and Michelle Lewicki went above and beyond the call of duty, graciously running both their literary and medical eyes over later drafts.
At a time when it seemed that I was likely to spend much of the next decade still working on this manuscript, Selena Hanet-Hutchins came on board as an editor, providing clear-eyed structural advice and helping me find the real story. Her guidance has been crucial. Selwa Anthony, my agent, has been a champion of this project from the moment she came across it, and Rebecca Kaiser, my publisher at Allen & Unwin, has been a dream to work with—and that’s despite her having had to contend with grammatical issues that she described, quite diplomatically, as being ‘uniquely yours’. Karen Ward diligently helped iron out such issues.
To the staff of the Mae Tao Clinic in Mae Sot, Thailand: your story demands a book of its own, and I can only hope you’ll forgive me for glancing over it so cursorily here. Know that it bears no reflection on what it meant to work alongside you.
To the staff of Kafe, the T-House, and Sanctuary: you gave me a home away from home during much of this writing process, and it was a delight.
To my parents, Graham and Denise, who read every line of every draft, and who never wavered in their support of this project, and who endured with unfailing patience the sporadic, siege-like takeovers of their dining area and spare-bedroom by a distracted son and his attendant morass of papers: your support has been invaluable. So too the encouragement. Thank you.
And to all those in the field, both local and expat, who I lived with, worked with, learned from, and laughed with over those months: I’m forever indebted. I hope this book reflects that.
(. . . Oh, as for other ways to stay single?
Move back home with your parents. Then write a book.)