Thank you Thomas Morris: without your bizarre encouragement, constructive criticism and completely unrewarded efforts on its behalf, this would certainly never have become a book.
Thank you Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen: your kindness, conviction and commitment have continually confounded my expectations of the publishing industry.
Thank you David Baume: for condoning my ludicrous career path, and Mark Beatty: for all the elegiac observations with which you enhance my days.
Thank you Deborah Baume: if I ever manage to achieve anything good in life, it will be because of you.
And thank you Wink, of course, wherever the fuck you came from, for all the trouble you cause me, still and all, I’m glad you washed up here.