by Tamar Hodes
George Johnston, ‘Sidney Nolan’s Gallipoli Paintings’ in ART and Australia, 1967
Ira B. Nadel Various Positions: A Life of Leonard Cohen (Pantheon Books, 1996)
John Tranter, An Introduction to Martin Johnston – Selected Poems and Prose (University of Queensland Press, 1993)
Nadia Wheatley, The Life and Myth of Charmian Clift (Harper Collins, 2001)
Nadia Wheatley, ‘Lies and Silences’ (paper given at a conference in Australia, 2002)
I am extremely grateful to the following people:
Yvonne Barlow of Hookline Books for her careful editing and for believing in this novel.
Jarkko Arjastalo (Leonard Cohen Files) and Allan Showalter (Cohencentric) for their encouragement and help.
Michele Bernier of the Musée National des Beaux-arts du Québec for sending me a copy of the painting of Marianne and Axel Joachim by Marcella Maltais (1972)
Professor Nils Roemer for sending me the film Ladies and Gentlemen.… Mr Leonard Cohen (1964)
Rebecca Smith for reading the novel and giving me useful feedback.
The staff at the Godolphin School in Salisbury where I have taught English for seventeen years; many of my colleagues have been kind enough to show an interest in my writing. I especially want to thank Clare Astbury for sharing with me her love of Leonard Cohen.
My children, Ben and Daisy, and their partners, Ellie and Barnaby, for their love and support.
Above all, I want to thank my husband, Dave, who has encouraged and loved me for the past thirty-five years and persuaded me to keep on writing, even when I lost hope.
About the author:
Tamar Hodes was born in Israel in 1961 and lived on Hydra and in South Africa before settling in the UK in 1967. After growing up in north London, she read English and Education at Homerton College, Cambridge. For the past thirty-three years she has taught English in schools, universities and prisons.
Her novel Raffy’s Shapes was published by Accent Press in 2006. She has had ten stories broadcast on Radio 4 and many others have appeared in anthologies including Salt’s Best British Short Stories 2015, The Pigeonhole, Your One Phone Call, the Ofi Press, MIR Online and Fictive Dream.
Tamar is married with two grown-up children and a grandson.
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This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.
ISBN: 9780995623552
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