Thanks also to Gareth James from Transpacific Waste Management for providing access to the tip operation out at Bottle Lake.
The staff at Archives New Zealand and the Ministry of Social Development showed remarkable patience and I thank both institutions for the documents their searches produced.
To Juliet Nicholas and Ken McAnergney, and Morrin Rout, and Marion Hargreaves, thank you for your hospitality, local knowledge and excellent company in Christchurch. Photographer Anne Noble was a great companion on two trips to the earthquake zone. Christchurch landscape architect Di Lucas generously provided invaluable insight. I am indebted to John Harper who made the initial approach to the Evans family. John guided me around the district and kindly opened the local museum. In 2008, I was fortunate to have Pieter van der Merwe of the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, guide me through an exhibition of William Hodges’ paintings and show me the sketches of the icebergs.
A heartfelt thanks to my first reader and agent, Michael Gifkins, and to my publisher at Text, Michael Heyward, for their tireless efforts on my behalf, and to the wonderful Jane Pearson for her astute and close reading.
Finally, the Russian poet Joseph Brodsky’s customary wisdom, in this instance a line from an essay, kept me on track: ‘If art teaches us anything, to the artist in the first place, it is the privateness of the human condition.’ From On Grief and Reason—Essays, Penguin Modern Classics, 2011, p. 40.
The author’s grandmother, Maud.
The author’s mother, Joyce, aged four.
The author’s father, Lew.
Lloyd Jones.
Lloyd Jones, A History of Silence
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