Thanks so much to everyone at Wildfire for your extraordinary help: Alex Clarke, Ella Gordon, Nathaniel Alcaraz-Stapleton, Jason Bartholomew, Shan Morley Jones, Siobhan Hooper for the beautiful cover, Mary Chamberlain, and everyone else involved with the production of this book. And especially to my truly superb editor, Kate Stephenson; I quite literally couldn’t have done this without you. Thanks for being so talented.
Thanks to my early readers: Ian Worgan, Richard Jones, Chyrelle Anstee, Margaret Pearce. Thanks to Nick Bush for all your help. And thanks as ever to my wonderful parents, my two brothers, one sister-in-law and three nephews. And to my sister, Anna: the bravest person I know, and my hero.
Thank you to my agent and friend, Laura Morris. I don’t need to tell you how much you mean to me but I will anyway: a lot!
Finally, and most importantly, thank you to Amy, the love of my life.