This time I’d particularly like to thank Jessica Adams for inviting me to be part of the otherwise all-girl anthology, Girls’ Night In. Somehow her Nick(ola) Earls joke led to the story that began this novel, and once the characters were in my head they wouldn’t leave.
Girls’ Night In and its successors have how raised millions of dollars for the international aid agency War Child, and some of the royalties from this novel will go to War Child as well. War Child provides immediate, effective and sustainable aid to children affected by war in order to build peace, resolve conflict and empower future generations.
I’d also like to thank the people at Curtis Brown, Penguin and home who got behind me when I decided this story shouldn’t stop before the nativity play, and should last the whole summer.