The three people who've won a copy of Promise are: Kathryn Crowden, Sandra Damevski and Jay. Thanks to everyone who entered.
Here's my six-year old, most enthusiastic 'drawer' of winners' names. Fairness is probably her most dearly held value, so you can be assured she was scrupulously fair.
A few years ago, after my marriage ended, I bought a little cottage in town, near the river.
When it was first built – in the early 1900s - it would have been a modest timber cottage with a half-closed-in side verandah, a dunny in the backyard, and a back lane for the night-soil man.
By the time I found it, the building had been thoroughly tinkered with. The house was clad in glossy white vinyl, the windows were aluminium, and on the roof were what looked like Pebblecrete tiles (which I later discovered had been nailed onto the tin roof).
When I was a kid, we didn't have a television and I read all day long, including at school where I hid a book on my lap. I discovered John Wyndham when I was about 10, and I still remember the exhilarating and disturbing experience of reading The Chrysalids.
If I knew that the child next door was being abused, I’d certainly notify community services. But what if no help came, and I was worried the child would be killed? Would I take things into my own hands?
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