The Beloved (31 page)

Acknowledgements

My heartfelt gratitude to everyone who helped bring this book through all its stages to publication.

To my husband, Alec, for his unwavering support, love and perspicacity.

To Rose Allen, my writing buddy and mentor, for her insight and editorial nous. For their help, love and encouragement, to Margaret Courtney, Peter Svensson, Annie and Lyn at
Annie's Books
and my friends in Akaroa, New Zealand. To Shelley Kenigsberg and Lauren Elise Daniels for their astute feedback; likewise to my Picador editor, Emma Rafferty, and publisher, Alex Craig.

A special thank you to Kate Grenville for her wise and timely advice.

In particular, I'd like to acknowledge the role of Varuna and its benefactor, Mick Dark, in the development of
The Beloved
. Varuna provides both a nurturing writing environment and valuable opportunities for writers to bring their work to the attention of publishers. My gratitude to Lis Bastian for her support and to Deb Westbury for her editorial assistance.

Finally, to the lady who informed me ‘pigs don't fly' – thank you for inspiring me to prove that they do.

Annah Lee Faulkner

In 2011,
The Beloved
won the Queensland Premier's Literary Award for an Emerging Queensland Author.

Annah and her husband live on Queensland's Sunshine Coast and spend extended time in the South Island of New Zealand.

She is presently working on her second novel.

Photographer: Alan Hughes

First published 2012 in Picador by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd
1 Market Street, Sydney 2000

Copyright © Annah Lee Faulkner 2012
The moral right of the author has been asserted.

All rights reserved. This publication (or any part of it) may not be reproduced or transmitted, copied, stored, distributed or otherwise made available by any person or entity (including Google, Amazon or similar organisations), in any form (electronic, digital, optical, mechanical) or by any means (photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise) without prior written permission from the publisher.

This ebook may not include illustrations and/or photographs that may have been in the print edition.

National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data:

Faulkner, Annah.
The beloved / Annah Faulkner.

9781742611556 (pbk.)

A823.4

Adobe eReader format: 9781743347645
EPUB format: 9781743347652
Online format: 9781743347638

The characters and events in this book are fictitious and any resemblance to real persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Typeset by Midland Typesetters, Australia
Cover design by Nada Backovich

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