I owe huge thanks, first to my agent Silvia Molteni for showing my story to Nick Lake at HarperCollins. Nick tactfully persuaded me to change bits to make it better. Thanks also to the hawk-eyed copy editors, Lily Morgan (UK) and Ellen Lind (US), who spotted some very embarrassing errors. But mainly thank you to you, the reader, because without you, it would all be a bit of a waste of time.