Rosie Little's Cautionary Tales for Girls (22 page)

Acknowledgments

For being Rosie’s perfect reader and first editor: Anica Boulanger-Mashberg.

For laughs, and for listening and never seeming to mind: Heather Brown.

For angelic guidance (and laughs too): Heather Rose.

For backwards spelling lessons: Brother Brian Godfrey.

For advice and assistance: Alan Champion, Maeve Arwel, Robyn and Adrian Colman, Geoffrey Kirkland, Graeme Riddoch, Andrew Sant, Elle Leane and Joanna Longbottom.

For wit, wisdom, friendship and allowing the occasional petty theft: Nelli Noakes, Jane Hutchinson, Kate Mooney, Lou Braithwaite, Mona Blackfish, Claire Konkes, Anna Johnston, Lisa Fletcher, Andrea Crompton, Katherine ‘Fuzzle’ Legg, Rachael Treasure, Carol Altmann, Joanna Richardson, Yvette Blackwood, the Curry Girls, the CRAFT sisterhood and honorary girlfriend Sister Peter Sharp.

For various aquiline noses: my colleagues at the University of Tasmania.

For energy: my students at the University of Tasmania.

For ‘supervising’: Richard Rossiter and Barbara Mobbs.

For making Rosie real: Annette Barlow, Christa Munns, Ali Lavau, Andrew Hawkins and all at Allen & Unwin.

For being the family of a writer, with all that it entails: Jenny and Peter Wood, John Godfrey, Axel Rooney and the Divine Miss X.