The End of the World Is Bigger than Love
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To Imogen Stubbs, Art Director and A-plus human, for dreaming up the miraculous cover, and to the illustrator, Kate Forrester, for pulling it off so beautifully.
To my agent, Pippa Masson, who watches over me with such loyal care.
To Helen Withycombe, my 1800PLOTFIX. It’s always summer when we’re together.
To dear Allison Colpoys, Jane Godwin, Katie Evans, Virginia Millen, Sally Rippin and Meg Whelan, whose enthusiasm for this book in various drafts kept it alive in my heart/mind.
To Edward and Peter Holmes, for workshopping this story in the back of a car and for making the world a better place.
To Suzie Brans, for her wise words and spare room, and for caring enough to know when I’d finished.
To the Scarlett Appreciation Society, for love and support over many writing seasons.
To Wendell Berry, for his poem ‘The Peace of Wild Things’, which is always there when winter falls.
To my sister and my brother, so smart and brave, for being with me through every chapter.
To my father—superfan and PR machine!—without whose sunny optimism, I would never have started this journey/novel.
And to my mother, dearest Vivienne, who fought to save the world in her own humble way.
Davina Bell is an award-winning author of books for young readers of many ages. She writes picture books (including All the Ways to be Smart and Under the Love Umbrella), junior fiction (Lemonade Jones) and middle-grade fiction (the Corner Park Clubhouse series). Davina lives in Melbourne, where she works as a children’s book publisher. davinabell.com
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Published by The Text Publishing Company, 2020
Book design by Imogen Stubbs
Cover illustration by Kate Forrester
Typeset by J&M Typesetting
ISBN: 9781922268822 (paperback)
ISBN: 9781925923353 (ebook)
A catalogue record for this book is available from the National Library of Australia.