‘I can’t believe it! What a rare and wonderful find. Where on earth did you get it?’
Professor Nadia Godlewski faced us across her desk, in a light-filled office in the Arts building at Melbourne University’s Parkville campus.
We’d slipped the photographed pages of Hobie’s book of poems into a display folder, and it was these that she now examined.
‘Where’s the original book?’ she asked. ‘I hope it’s somewhere safe.’
She was imposing, a large, attractive woman, not young, with a long mane of curly dark hair that fell around her shoulders, and clear, white skin devoid of make-up. She wore a maxi dress of red cotton in a batik design, and a necklace of heavy, black beads. She spoke with a slight accent.
‘It’s evidence in an ongoing investigation, which we can’t say too much about,’ Tren
