Byline: JASON KOUTSOUKIS

A former boyfriend of Helen Darville, the author of the controversy- plagued novel The Hand That Signed the Paper, claimed yesterday that she had deliberately set out to distort "the Jewish version of history" in her book. Mr Paul Gadaloff, 27, who first met Ms Darville at the University of Queensland, in 1990, said he had helped her in extensive research for the book, and his contribution is acknowledged in it by Ms Darville. Mr Gadaloff claimed that Ms Darville knew the consequences the content of her book would have, and that she was "looking forward to tough interviews from Jewish talk-show hosts...