ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I’d like to thank my son Elliot, who inspired this book with a question he asked while we were walking in the Roaches. I’d also like to thank my wife, Amy, and our other children, Maya and Thomas, who’ve been very patient with my attempts to wrangle time and shape this story over the years.

Thanks go to my editors Loan Le at Simon & Schuster and Vicki Mellor at Pan Macmillan, whose thoughts were invaluable in helping develop The Other Side of Night. I’d also like to express my gratitude to my agents Hannah Sheppard and Helen Edwards for their feedback and enthusiasm for the book. Thanks to Daniel Seidel for his attention to detail during the copyedit.

Thanks to Tony Kent, brilliant thriller writer and barrister, for his advice on legal procedure and the language of the courtroom. I’m also grateful to storyteller extraordinaire Anthony Horowitz for reminding me of the power of perspective, and to thriller master James Patterson for all the lessons in keeping the pages turning. I’d also like to thank the many authors, booksellers, librarians, reviewers, and readers who’ve supported me over the years. This book is quite different from my previous work. I hope you like it. If you did, please review and share the book, but don’t give away any spoilers.

I’ve read a few books on time as part of my research for The Other Side of Night. If you’re interested in exploring the subject further, I can recommend Your Brain Is a Time Machine: The Neuroscience and Physics of Time by Dean Buonomano as a great place to start. Interstellar and Arrival are both excellent films that rely on block theory and challenge the notion of paradox.

Finally, I’d like to thank a man whose name I don’t know. We met in the woods outside the Hurst in Clunton and walked together for a while. You talked about the loss you’d recently suffered. Your wise words on grief inspired some of the reflections in this book. You honored your daughter with them.