Acknowledgments

Many thanks to sisters Katie and Nicola Helps (who really did!) for transcribing the first draft that I had dictated to tape.

Thanks are also due to Laura Stooke of LS Secretarial Ltd who worked on the penultimate draft.

My thanks, too, to my agent Darin Jewell, m.d. of The Inspira Group and my publisher, Mr K Sood, m.d. of Thames River Press.

And last, but not least, to my long-suffering wife, Wendy, who has dealt with endless revisions and produced the final manuscript.