Acknowledgements

Thank you especially to Katya Shipster at HarperCollins for your patience and skill during this project and much gratitude to Dawn, Fionnuala, Jessie, Sarah, Holly, Julie, Anna, Tom, Alice, Ben, Ammara, Oli, Kate, Adam and Roger.

Thank you to Dylan for your eagle eye and help with the audiobook.

Thanks to Cathryn Summerhayes and Luke Speed at Curtis Brown, for their belief and enthusiasm.

Thank you, Charles, for your calmness and love.

Thank you, Tam, for everything you do.

Thank you to Matt, Tom and Courtney for your friendship.

And, of course, thank you, Mam and Dad, for everything.