Acknowledgements

I would like to thank:

James Long, Debbie Leatherbarrow and Zoe Lea.

And also: Jane Gregory, Stephanie Glencross, Claire Morris and everyone at Gregory & Company. Frankie Gray, Sarah Adams, Alison Barrow, Rachel Rayner, Claire Ward and everyone at Transworld. Corinna Barsan at Grove Atlantic. Thanks, too, to Cathy Rentzenbrink.

Whilst writing, I found the book How to be Idle by Tom Hodgkinson very useful.