Acknowledgments

Thanks to Dave Rudden and conferences.

Thanks to Lisa Coen. I am so lucky to be hanging around you.

Thanks to friends who have had to listen to me bang on about this for literally years: Bex Coghlan, Lou Hodgson (who read things first), Susie Hill, Hannah Murphy, Marco Herbst.

Thanks to Sallyanne Sweeney and the gang at Mulcahy Associates—there’s nowhere I’d rather be.

Thanks to the incredible Mary-Anne Harrington, who really inspires me as a publisher, to Amy Perkins, and to everyone at Tinder Press and Headline.

Thanks to Georgina Moore, who is a force of nature, and thanks to the brilliant Elaine Egan.

Huge thanks too to Christine Kopprasch and the team at Flatiron. I feel really proud to be published by you in the US.

Thanks to the exceptional readers of Ireland—there’s no place like home, especially for books.

Thanks to my brothers, Will Danger, Hens, and James.

Thanks most of all to my parents, Robert and Sheelagh.