Acknowledgements

My thanks go firstly to all at Summersdale Publishers and in particular to Jennifer Barclay and Chris Turton, who believed in the book enough to push it and me hard. Huge thanks also go to Natalie and the boys whose chaos in the face of my attempts at order are the principal reason for the book's existence and to Charlotte Phillips, Annabel Giles, Alison Lyndon-Parker, Paul Thorne and Sonja Van Praag who all, at various times over the years, have told me to stop moaning and write it down.