The Other Side of Sorrow (21 page)

Work at the site went ahead quickly and smoothly and the few press articles that attempted to make sinister connections between the Games and the ‘Tadpole Creek Graveyard' were quickly forgotten.

I tried to get in touch with Tess Hewitt but her phone didn't answer and when I drove out to Concord one sunny day with my explanations and a forty-dollar bottle of red wine at the ready, I found a For Sale sign and a neighbour who told me she'd packed up and gone to the north coast. A while later I got a postcard from her from Byron Bay with Mae West on it and the inevitable caption. I think I will go up and see her sometime.