Winton’s debt to unlikely ‘saviour’

HE'S reclusive, he's enigmatic and he's Australia's most celebrated living author.

But it seems Tim Winton is also amazingly forgetful.

With the film adapation of his classic novel Cloudstreet due to hit the screens on Foxtel this month, the four-times Miles Franklin winner has revealed he left the half-finished handwritten manuscript - and the carbon copy - on a bus in Rome on his way to Athens in 1988. => http://bit.ly/jikp93