With gratitude as always to Mum and Dad, Ron and Stephen, my agent Meg Davis, the Infamous Write Club (Pete, Kathleen and Jo), Jodi Cleghorn (for the phrase “outrage unstrung”), to Mary Shelley and Charlotte Brontë for the inspiration and the nightmares, and to my wonderful editor Cath, to Hayley for copyediting above and beyond, to Julia for the gorgeous cover, and the team at Titan for making all the words stick together in roughly all the right places.