Fusion

  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  Thank you Meredith Curnow, Ben Ball and Rachel Scully of Penguin Random House.

  Thank you to the Australia Council for the Arts.

  Thank you Jenny Green, Lucy Treloar, Dana Miltins, Clare Strahan, Trish Bolton.

  Thank you Andrea McNamara.

  Thank you Toni Jordan, Heather Rose, Nick Waterman, Lee Kofman.

  Thank you Sheila Drummond.

  Thank you Bridget Busuttil for teaching me how to make quince wine. In the end, mine looked like dish water, but yours was rose gold with a soft, slight fragrance – not too tart, nor too sweet.

  Kate Richards is a writer of fiction, narrative nonfiction and poetry. She has a medical degree with honours and works part-time in genetics. Kate is the author of the critically acclaimed Madness: A Memoir and the Penguin Special Is There No Place for Me?

  ALSO BY KATE RICHARDS

  Madness: A Memoir

  Is There No Place for Me?

  HAMISH HAMILTON

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  First published by Penguin Random House Australia Pty Ltd, 2019

  Text copyright © Kate Richards, 2019

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  Cover artwork by Peter Nevins

  ISBN: 9781760141639

  This project has been assisted by the Commonwealth Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.

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