The Past is a Secret Country [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to offer my heartfelt thanks to the following people for their support during the writing of this book, in particular my editor, Barbara Daniel, for her encouragement and inspired thoughts on the manuscript, my agent, Sarah Molloy, for her good advice, and my desk editors, Sarah Rustin and Jane Selley, for their hard work and courage. Also thanks to the art department, Rebecca Gray, publicity manager, and Nicola Hill, export marketing director, at Time Warner Book Group UK, and the team at Penguin in Melbourne. To Jaime, to my mother Gloria, to my children, David and Lucille, and to my sister Lyndall - a special thanks to all of you for your love and for having faith in me. Also to Richard Gilbert, for his suggestions on humour, and to the rest of my family and friends for their love, encouragement and loyalty. Thanks also to the following: the Australian and Torres Strait Islander Commission; Rita Catoni and Simon Fisher at Yuendumu settlement. Northern Territory; the National Wool Museum, Geelong, Victoria; the Sheep's Back Museum, New South Wales; Adoption UK; Origins, Australia; the Registrar of Births, Deaths and Marriages, Melbourne; the Adoption Information Service, Department of Human Resources, Melbourne; the Natural History Museum, London; British Inland Waterways Association; Hart Brown Solicitors, Surrey; and Jo Dunbar, Botanica Medica, Surrey. Several books were invaluable to me in my research for The Past