To my brilliant medico mates, Dr Stephen Barnett and fellow writer Dr Katie Pullinger, thank you for straightening out the details relating to illness and death. Any remaining errors are mine, and probably due to the fact that most of what you said went straight over my head. Grant Tucker and Karen Abey – how lucky that my family have friends! Thank you for your input on the Tasmanian legal system.
A huge thank you to the clever and indomitable Cathie Taskerat the Australian Writers’ Centre, and to all my classmates in the superlative Write Your Novel course: in particular Sarah Jones-Nygren and Paula Silveira for their excellent full-text critiques, but also to June, Sal, Jess, Marisa and Gezza for your critiques and ongoing virtual support. For your expert, detailed, early structural edit, a big thank you to Alexandra Nahlous. You made everything much tighter.
To commercial fiction author extraordinaire Fiona McIntosh, thank you for believing in my writing and awarding me the Dymocks Fiona McIntosh Commercial Fiction Scholarship in 2018. I had an absolute blast during my week in Adelaide with you and Nathan, and your tips on writing synopses are now tattooed on my brain (also the story about underpants).
I am immensely grateful to my super-duper talented and enthusiastic editor, Emily Gowers. Your editorial insights are phenomenal and the way you have championed my writing is very touching. And to the rest of the team at Bookouture, thank you, thank you! So far the ride has been rollicking.
To my three beautiful children, Henry, Grace and Georgina, thank you for cheering me on and for being such big-hearted individuals. And a special hug for Miss Georgie for checking on my writerly progress every single day. You are the queen of the word count and the keeper of secret endings.
To all of you who read Good Little Liars and made it through to this page, I hope I didn’t let you down. Thank you for investing your precious time in my story and I’d really love to hear what you thought.
To all the Clementines out there who speak up when they see injustice, thank you. Keep going!
Finally, to my extraordinary husband Justin. Your love and unwavering belief that I can do anything are gifts that I don’t take for granted.
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