A huge thank you to Robert Berry, Senior Licensing Consultant with the Really Useful Group who not only showed a massive interest in this book, but also gave permission for me to use The Really Useful Group’s name, as well as assuring me that Sir Andrew Lloyd Weber wouldn’t object to having his name appear in several chapters.
I need to mention Gary Griffiths, choirmaster of both Sing Live and Inspirations in Leeds, the choirs I’ve sung with for many years. It was he, when we were singing Jerusalem, who came up with the one-liner: “Anne Did Those Feet” and which I blatantly pinched for the name of the podiatrist in Juno’s surgery. The idea for Scott Butler taking on the part of Herod, and camping it up wearing the oversized yellow suit and purple wig came directly from Gary doing exactly the same when Sing Live put on its own performance of Jesus Christ Superstar. Thanks, Gary.
Thanks, as always, to my lovely agent, Anne Williams at KHLA Literary Agency, and to the fabulous Hannah Smith, my brilliant editor at Aria, Head of Zeus who, together with Vicky and the rest of the team, have helped to make Sing Me A Secret the best it can possibly be.
And finally, to all you wonderful readers who read my books and write such lovely things about them, a huge, heartfelt Thank you.