Thank you to my lovely readers for picking up this book. I had so much fun writing it --– and I completely fell head over heels for Lydia and Danny and I hope that you did too! Thank you for all the tweets, shares, reviews and emails that you send me. It means the world to me to know that I have such lovely, supportive readers. Also, to the wonderful blogging community that take the time to read the book, to review it and to share it on social media – I would be nowhere without you.
Thank you to my agent Hannah Ferguson for all her help with this book and much needed cheerleading when it got tough in the first draft. Thanks also to the rest of the team at Hardman and Swainson – Joanna, Caroline, Thérèse and Lindsey. Big thanks to everyone at Bonnier Zaffre for all you do behind the scenes to bring my book baby into the world. Special thanks to Sophie Orme, Claire Johnson-Creek and Bec Farrell for the notes and guidance, and replying patiently to all my plot changing emails.
In one draft Lydia and Danny snuck over the border from Spain and got married in Gibraltar, but I thought Hazel and Linda would have disowned them and the scenes had to be cut. Thank you to Flora at Rock Occasions in Gibraltar for the help and guidance about getting married there. Thank you to Zeenat for your ideas and insight into events planning – I miss hearing those stories in the tea boat. Thanks to Ali for your help with research that again didn’t make it into this one, but I’m going to save it for the next book. Also, a big thanks to Christie for checking things for me – again!
To all my friends and family, thank you for your continuing support and for feeding me and giving me wine when needed. Special mention to Debs for your ideas – and one day I’ll write THAT book especially for you. To my new writer buddy Lorraine Wilson for our lovely meet-ups – they help keep me sane. But most of all, thanks to my lovely husband Steve. Thank you for everything, as per usual, and to the kids, despite the fact that they can’t understand how mummy could write books that people actually read when I tell them the most boring made-up stories at bedtime.