Catherine While paid cold hard cash for the right to appear as a character of my choosing in Snap. She was the highest bidder in the annual CLIC Sargent Get In Character auction for children and young people with cancer. Thanks to Catherine, and to all the under-bidders who forced her to be so generous!
Many thanks to my publishers and translators all over the world, but particularly to my editors, Sarah Adams, Amy Hundley and Stephanie Glencross, for their patience, enthusiasm and insight.
And a special mention to Sarah, who first imagined a knife beside her bed …