Thanks to everyone who worked to pull this book together with me. My editors in London and New York, Rachel Cugnoni and Elisabeth Schmitz. Áine Mulkeen, Ana Fletcher, Matt Broughton and Neil Bradford at Vintage. Laura Evans on copy-edit and proofs. Kamila Shamsie, Sylvia Whitman at Shakespeare and Company. And my glorious agent Caroline Michel, who loves Christmas as much as I do.
And absent friends: Kathy Acker and Ruth Rendell. And of course, Mrs Winterson and Dad.