My thanks are due to my support team: Anna Madill, Paula Ellery, and Heather Gammage, without whom I don’t know how I’d ever get a book finished. Love and appreciation always to my cheer squad: Ollie, Mary-Rose, the Sisters, and Mum. I wrote a great deal of this story on my travels in the United Kingdom in 2015, during which time I shared the delightful company of Louise D’Arcens, Lisa Hannett, Kate Forsyth, and Elizabeth McKewin. A special mention to Gerald Pimm, who told me I needed a man just like Snowy in my book, and he was right. I have the loveliest people in publishing working with me, particularly Sue Brockhoff, Jo Mackay, Airlie Lawson, Anne Groell, and Kylie Mason. Much love to my children, Luka and Astrid, who are patient and kind. Finally, I offer my most heartfelt thanks to Selwa Anthony, who has now been my literary agent for more than twenty years. Since 1996, her love and faith, her business acumen and passion for books, have sustained me and inspired me. There is nobody in publishing like her, and it is a blessing and a privilege to have her on my side.