Dedication: 'Soo Lin and the Snow Eagle' is dedicated to the memory of my mother, Wilma Emmett (Easton), who died on 23.8.96 leaving us a treasury of truth, beauty and love, to my father, 'Ted' Emmett, whose heart at 82 still beats with the fierce red fire of the sun, to my 'fellow travellers' Bernie, Michael, Ellen, Sue and Jan, and to my good friend Annette Robinson.'