Abridged extracts from Revolt in Paradise by K’tut Tantri (originally published by Harper, New York, 1960) are used by kind permission of Michael Paul and the Estate of the Late K’tut Tantri:

• Extract on pages 124–125: from Part 1, Chapter 1, ‘The Tree’, abridged.
• Extract on pages 160–165: from Part 1, Chapter 2, ‘Pito’, abridged.
• Extract on pages 172–179: from Part 1, Chapter 5, ‘The Palace, the Rajah and the Prince’, Chapter 6, ‘Fourth Born’, Chapter 12, ‘Among the People of the Kampongs’, Chapter 13, ‘A Dream Takes Shape’ and Chapter 14, ‘Sound of the Sea’, abridged.
• Extract on pages 225–232: from Part 2, Chapter 1, ‘The Japanese Take Over’ and Chapter 2, ‘I Join the Resistance’, abridged.
• Extract on pages 275–280: from Part 2, Chapter 3, ‘A Prisoner of the Japanese’, Chapter 4, ‘Some Refinements of Torture’ and Chapter 6, ‘The Sight of Freedom’, abridged.
• Extract on page 289–293: from Part 3, Chapter 2, ‘I Cast My Lot In with the Revolution’ and Chapter 3, ‘The British Are Surprised – And So Am I’, abridged.

The extracts are reproduced with the original American spelling. Small corrections of typographical errors or to make allowances for changes in language have been made.

About Di Morrissey

About Di Morrissey

Di Morrissey is one of the most successful and prolific authors Australia has ever produced. She trained as a journalist, working in newspapers, magazines, television, film, theatre and advertising around the world. Her fascination with different countries, their landscape, their cultural, political and environmental issues, has been the catalyst for her novels which are all inspired by a particular landscape. Di lives with her partner, Boris Janjic, in the Manning Valley, NSW. In 2017, in recognition of her achievements, Di was inducted into the Australian Book Industry Awards Hall of Fame with the Lloyd O’Neil Award. In 2019, she was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

Also by Di Morrissey

Also by Di Morrissey

In order of publication

Heart of the Dreaming

The Last Rose of Summer

Follow the Morning Star

The Last Mile Home

Tears of the Moon

When the Singing Stops

Scatter the Stars

Blaze

The Bay

Kimberley Sun

Barra Creek

The Reef

The Valley

Monsoon

The Islands

The Silent Country

The Plantation

The Opal Desert

The Golden Land

The Winter Sea

The Road Back

Rain Music

A Distant Journey

The Red Coast

Arcadia

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This is a work of fiction. Characters, institutions and organisations mentioned in this novel are either the product of the author’s imagination or, if real, used fictitiously without any intent to describe actual conduct.

First published 2019 in Macmillan by Pan Macmillan Australia Pty Ltd

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Copyright © Lady Byron Pty Ltd 2019

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