The Turning

Acknowledgements

Some of these stories have appeared before:

‘Abbreviation’ in The Bulletin

‘Aquifer’ in Granta, The Australian Women’s Weekly and The Beacon Best of 2001 (ed. Junot Diaz)

‘Cockleshell’ in The Australian Women’s Weekly, Prospect and The Harvard Review

‘Commission’ in Harper’s

‘Family’ in Meanjin and (as ‘Leaper’) in Tracks

‘Small Mercies’ in Heat

‘Damaged Goods’ in The Threepenny Review.

The author gratefully acknowledges the editors of these publications.

Excerpt from ‘Ash Wednesday’ from Collected Poems 1909–1962 by T. S. Eliot. Reprinted with permission of Faber & Faber Ltd.

The Way of Chuang Tzu by Thomas Merton published by

Shambhala Publications, Massachusetts © 1965 by the Abbey of Gethsemani.

Reproduced by permission of Pollinger Limited and the proprietor.

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Special thanks to Denise, whose help made this book possible.