Acknowledgements

I’d like to thank the many actors who gave me inspiration and ideas for this novel, none of whom appear as themselves, but to avoid confusion I shall avoid listing names. But if I interviewed you, or cornered you at a party, or just watched you in admiration from the stalls, thank you, I couldn’t have written this book without you.

I’d also like to thank my loyal early readers, Georgia Garrett, Alexandra Pringle, Xandra Bingley, Natania Jansz, Bella Freud and my husband, David Morrissey.