• Jenna Crawley, who brought me to Kilmarnock and let her house there be my second home during college years. Her welcoming, generous father John C Wilson and his book The Northern Neck: A Pictorial History, which helped me imagine Kilmarnock in earlier days.

• Vanessa Rae Many for the dog who eats bananas and for coming to Portland and waiting for my train which took forever (thanks Jenna too). And Evelyn Thornton and Jessica Arends for their long-distance friendship over the years.

• My running group who put up with my long rants on long runs: Bridget, Antonia, Sylvia, Juliet, Vix and Yasmin. Sharon for always making me laugh and for full to brim. Rose for Thursdays. Rachel, Carl, Sam and Callum for the dog named Friday. The Sweetapple-Moss clan and Sally (particularly for Conjola Creek).

• Writing friends and mentors Debra Adelaide, Poppy Gee, Ashley Hay, Bianca Nogrady, Ashleigh Synott, Sunil Badami and Annabel Stafford.

• My mother, Nancy Limprecht, for always reading my work and not holding back on the criticism, or the praise. My sister, Alma Klein, for her brilliant blurb writing.

• My wonderful children Eliza and Sam for forgiving my frequent distraction and being the best distractions of all. And finally, my husband, Simon, without whom I never would have left the comforts of my homeland and stretched myself into the shape of a writer. For your support, love and laughter over the years.

FURTHER READING

FURTHER READING

War Brides

Robyn Arrowsmith, All the way to the USA: Australian WWII War Brides, 2013.

Rebecca Britt, Stories of Love and War, New Holland, 2010.

Dyson, Catherine, Swing by Sailor, Hodder Headline, 2007.

Annette Potts and Lucinda Strauss, For the Love of a Soldier—Australian War-Brides and their GIs, ABC Books, 1987.

Ann Howard, You’ll Be Sorry: How World War II changed women’s lives, Big Sky Publishing, 1990.

Peter A Thompson and Robert Macklin, The Battle of Brisbane: Australians and the Yanks at War, ABC Books, 2000.

British War Brides Club, Journey to a new life—WA War Brides Stories 2002.

Women in Veterinary Medicine

A biography of and interview with Patricia Thompson Herr, DVM, ecommons.cornell.edu.

Jeanne Logue, The Wonder of it all, Harper Collins 1979.

Eating Disorders

Marya Hornbacher, Wasted: a memoir of anorexia and bulimia Random House, 1998.

Roxanne Gay, Hunger, Little Brown, 2017.

Wright, Fiona, Small Acts of Disappearance, Giramondo, 2015.

Courtney E Martin, Perfect girls, starving daughters, Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Works cited:

‘Floating Creche Coming for US War Brides’, The Argus, 28 January 1946.

‘A Bride’s Guide to the USA’, British Good Housekeeping magazine in conjunction with the United States Office of War Information, 1945.

‘When Your Man Comes Home’, The Albury Banner and Wodonga Express, 28 September 1945.