Lucy the Good Page 6

  METHOD 2 (if you don’t have a speculaas mold)

  Follow the instructions above but instead of pressing the dough into the mold, roll it out until it is about ¼ inch thick. Use cookie cutters to make different shapes. Press almonds into the top of the dough (optional). Bake as above.

  Lucy’s friends and family tell her about how they deal with their anger, and Lucy comes up with her own solution. What do you do when you’re angry? How can you let it out in a good way?

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  Remember! If this book does not belong to you, you can do this activity on a separate sheet of paper.

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  I’d like to thank my family and friends for continuing to support and encourage me in my writing endeavors; my publisher, Zoe Walton, and the rest of the team at Random House Australia, for putting in a huge effort and being so enthusiastic about this project; Sheila Drummond, my agent, for her support and for looking after all the negotiations and contractual stuff that pretty much goes over my head; Cheryl Orsini, for her lively illustrations that perfectly capture Lucy’s character; everyone who critiqued my manuscript and bolstered me up when I was going through the “my novel is no good and I’ll never be published again!” phase, namely, my mum, Russell Talbot, Lyn Eggins, Kate Thorne, and my great online critique group, Critters (Kesta Fleming, Richard Brookton, and Julie Thorndyke); the South Australian Writers’ Centre and the Ekidnas group, for being such useful resources and support; Aunty Jenny, for testing the speculaas recipe; the Broadview taste-testers, for being culinary guinea pigs; and, finally, the Macquarie Group Foundation LongLines Program, which involved an over-the-phone mentorship with Peter Bishop, Creative Director of Varuna Writers’ House, that, despite taking place during the middle of a thunderstorm, was extremely useful and gave rise to the scene featuring Apricot the chicken in the backyard bathtub.