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The Reporter

is a story about survival

Journalist Abel Richards investigates the disappearance of a farm woman from a small town on the edge of Dartmoor. Climate change is starting to bite and shady corporate players eye the high ground, even the future of the hill farms seems uncertain. Meanwhile, another idea has just begun to take shape ..

Thank you to the brilliant and inspiring people who gave me permission to use their words as epigraphs.

Thank you, Wangkatja Tjungula Aboriginal Corporation and the Mount Margaret Remote Community School, representatives of the Wongutha people, including elders and high schoolers, who are checking that reference in the book to their culture is both accurate and respectful.

Thank You also to Ellie at NTSG and to the State Library of w Australia in Perth, for helping me find the right people to ask.

And Thank You Arkbound, based out of Bristol and Glasgow, a young and multicultural publishing company, with a strong environmental ethos. It's great to be working with them.