Acknowledgements
Some novelists spend years on their research, involving long hours poking through dusty archives, months holed up in The British Library and weeks of background reading.
My own approach is generally to hit Google or ask a friend/colleague/bloke in the pub, who might know.
This time those kind souls have included:
Anne Catchpole, Domenic De Paolis, Joanne Derrick, Lyn-Marie Fabes, Sally Forgette, Helen French, Bill Harris, Lorna Marchant, Trevor McCallum, Catherine Pool, Lynda Wenham-Jones, Tom Wenham-Jones and the person I’ve forgotten (there is always one).
I am also grateful to Dr Mark J Hudson-Peacock FRCP (a whiz with the Botox) and Laurence Shaw FRCOG (if your hormones are in uproar – he’s the best) for sharing their professional expertise; Heather Leatt for being my gym buddy (and task-mistress!); Lynne Barrett-Lee for my first taste of Daytime TV; Jacqui Cook for the inclusion of Green’s Wine Bar and Tony Mulliken for being such a pal when I was losing heart.
Thanks too to my agent The Fearsome One, Hazel Cushion, Della Galton and Liz Coldwell. We got there in the end, eh? 