I wish to thank the following for reading the book at different stages and providing me with much-needed tips and encouragement: Joe Butler, Niall Carney, Anna Keating, Damian Keenan, Chloe Redmond, Jack Freeney, Patricia Emms and Kate Kurevleva.
Writing a book can be a lonely and terrifying experience but that is nothing to handing over the first draft to be edited and made good enough to publish. My editor Susan Houlden deserves something better than this mention of thanks. She was a constant champion of the story and kept me sane when the nerves would hit over the months that I/we worked on the book.
I want to thank designer and artist Emma Byrne for a truly beautiful cover. I pray that the story lives up to the promise of her work.
My thanks to Michael O’Brien and the rest of the staff of the O’Brien Press. It is an honour to be part of their stable of writers.
