Acknowledgments
As ever, I must begin with my friend and agent Michael Sissons, who signed me as an unpublished hopeful twelve years ago and who has made breaking authors from scratch look effortless. I am also extremely grateful to the entire team at Headline, especially my editor Harrie Evans, who gave me a novella’s worth of notes on this book and improved the final result immeasurably. My additional thanks go to Kerr MacRae, Martin Neild, Jane Morpeth, Georgina Moore, Catherine Cobain, James Horobin, Kate Burke, Amy Johnson, Poppy Shirlaw, Emily Kennedy, Barbara Ronan, Katherine Rhodes, Paul Endpresser, and the entire sales force. Extra special thanks to the Board and to all the occupants of the Comfy Chairs.
In the U.S. I would like to thank my agent, Emma Parry, my editor Trena Keating and everybody at Plume—especially Ali Bothwell Mancini, Marie Coolman, Melissa Jacoby, and Abigail Powers. Every author wishes they had such a strong team behind them, and I appreciate how lucky I’ve been with Sparkles.