Love and thanks for all the other things to Amy Huon, Felix Riebl, Dominic Allen, Sean O’Beirne, Gerard Elson, Murray Middleton, Nick Barkla, Linda Gallagher, Ariella Mata Luque, Johnny Eagle, Nikki Marshall, Alex Sullivan, Paul Liknaitzky, Taegan Hannah, Adam Ferguson, Jess Huon, Lachlan Tan, Nenad Macesic, Amy Vuleta, Luke May, Dave Mence, Michael Quin, Philip Goldswain, Bernard Caleo, Pat Gallagher, Kristen Crowhurst, Eddy Carrol, Sam Rutter, Pia Mancini, David Champion, Ken Wach, Julie Sheils, Marita Dyson, Joel Betts, Hunter Mulcare, Tracy O’Shaughnessy, Oliver Mol, Pierre Sutcliffe, Jim Thomson, Anita Spooner, Anaya Latter, Paul Bateman, David Sornig, Nathan Curnow, Bern and Pete Thomson, Anne Hoban, and Sunrise Kindergarten. Thanks also to Mark Rubbo, Sharon Peterson, and everyone at Readings St Kilda — a fragile oasis amid a gathering inferno.

Thank you to my sisters, Hester and Nina Allinson, and to my mum, Margaret Halliday. I’ll talk to you guys later. Thanks to my dad, Bryse Allinson.

Thanks to Henry Rosenbloom, Max Rosenbloom, Sarina Gale, Joshua Croggon, Bella Li, Tace Kelly, and everyone else at Scribe. Thank you for having me. Thanks to Allison Colpoys for the rad cover. Thanks and love to Marika Webb-Pullman for putting all the punctuation inside the quotation marks and allowing me to delete all her ‘whoms’ — and for everything else too, obviously, for keeping faith.

Lastly, my love and gratitude to Arkie Luna Allinson and to Dr Holly Gallagher, amazing humans and teachers. You rock, rocks.