Grateful thanks as always to the brilliant team behind Ross, especially my editor, Rachel Pierce; my agent, Faith O’Grady; and the artist Alan Clarke. Thank you to Michael McLoughlin, Patricia Deevy, Cliona Lewis, Patricia McVeigh, Brian Walker, Aimee Johnson, Carrie Anderson and everyone at Penguin Ireland. Thanks to my family – Dad, Mark, Vincent and Richard. And, most of all, thank you to my beautiful wife, Mary.