The Resurrectionist (27 page)

I would like to thank all those who assisted in the writing of this novel. For taking the time to read various drafts and offer advice I am grateful to David Malouf, Hilary McPhee and Delia Falconer; similarly I am indebted to the doctors and students who allowed me to observe as they worked and who allowed me to learn first-hand what it is like to spend time with the recently-dead. Though their subjects could not consent I owe them and their families a special debt of gratitude. For support of a different kind I am grateful to the Literature Board of the Australia Council for the provision of the Fellowship on which much of this novel was written, a gesture which bought me time and space I could not otherwise have hoped for, and to Fiona Inglis for her support through much of the time it took to write. But most of all I would like to thank my agent at Rogers, Coleridge and White, David Miller; my publisher at Picador Australia, Nikki Christer; and my editor, Judith Lukin-Amundsen. And last, but certainly not least, Mardi McConnochie, without whom
it would never have been
written.

James Bradley was born in 1967. He has twice been named as one of the
Sydney Morning
Herald
’s Best Young Australian Novelists. He is the author of
Paper Nautilus, Wrack
and
The Deep Field
, and lives in Sydney.

Paper Nautilus
Wrack
The Deep Field