Thank you to Clare Conville for all your inspiration and intelligence. To Jess Leeke and Jill Taylor and everyone at Michael Joseph and Penguin, it’s been an absolute pleasure so far. And great thanks to Peter Joseph at Hanover Square Press and HarperCollins for your general brilliance—and to Emer Flounders, too.
Closer to home, I’d like to thank all the Southalls for creating paradise, and to my partner in crime in all matters, Ali. My final word is to Dudley, and all the dogs—our friends, muses and guardian angels.