The Daughters of Mars

Acknowledgments

Thanks go abundantly to my indomitable agent Amanda Urban, and to Judith Curr and Peter Borland, for giving the Durance Sisters a genial home.

At the same level of sincerity, I must state my gratitude to my wife, Judy, natural-born editor of first choice and—very handily for this narrative—a former nurse, though in a later era than that dealt with in The Daughters of Mars. My sister-in-law, Jane Keneally, is also a nurse and read the manuscript and gave editorial input.

And my brother, Dr. John Keneally, made a Member of the Order of Australia for his services to child anesthesia and analgesia during the writing of this book, took time in the midst of severe illness to do a very thorough medical and general edit of the manuscript.

Needless to say, no blame for any remaining errors in the manuscript attach to these generous people.