Affection (28 page)
Dr Row had his personal opinions, but his colleagues in this book were all good men doing their jobs to the best of their abilities.
This book was researched and written with the help of an Arts Queensland grant and a fellowship at Varuna, the Writers’ House.
A number of people gave me encouragement, suggestions, and information including editor Judith Lukin-Amundsen, Peter Bishop from Varuna, and Stephanie Smith, Rod Morrison, Linda Funnell and Vanessa Radnidge from HarperCollins.
I’m especially grateful to Dr John Thearle for his enthusiasm for Dr A.J. Turner.
As part of the research for this book, I read and enjoyed Dr Thearle’s University of Queensland thesis, ‘Dr Alfred Jefferis Turner: His Contribution to Medicine in Queensland’, as well as Christina Louise Amiet’s James Cook University thesis, ‘The Second Angel: Plague in North Queensland 1900–1922’, and the numerous books on Queensland’s political history by Professor Ross Fitzgerald.
I’d like to thank the staff of the James Cook University Library in Townsville and the John Oxley Library in Brisbane, as well as Di MacGregor in Townsville for her advice, friendship, and newspaper archives.
Thanks also to Dr Humphry Cramond from the Australian Medical Association in Queensland, Mrs Dorothy Row, Vic Jackson from St Andrew’s Presbyterian Church in Townsville, Geoff Thompson from the Queensland Museum, Artie Rentoul from the museum at Dunwich, and Peter Ludlow.
And thanks to Heather Townsend, for never doubting that I could write this book.
Ian Townsend is a journalist with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He lives in Queensland with his wife, Kirsten, and their daughters, Charlotte, Josephine and Gabrielle.
Affection
is his first novel.
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