Thank you to:
My wonderful publishers – Julie Gibbs in Australia and Mari Evans in the UK. Thanks also to the entire teams in both locations. Penguin rules OK.
To my adored agent, Jonathan Lloyd, and all at Curtis Brown in London, particularly Camilla Goslet and Alice Lutyens. To Fiona Inglis, Pippa Masson and the gang at Curtis Brown in Sydney. And Christy Fletcher in New York.
Always to my treasured novelist gal pals, for advice, support and emails: Jessica Adams, Kathy Lette and Karen Moline.
To Stephanie Donaldson for help with what blooms where and when, Mark Connolly for his New York insider eye, and Chris Durlacher for Côte d’Azur savoir faire. Rose and Grace Eastell for their sage advice on pop music. Chris, Iain and Johnnie Alderson for the same on death metal.
To all the people who lent me havens to write in: Glenn and Kath Veness for Windy Corner; Jean Howell for Oxford Terrace; Lionel Copley for Trafalgar Cottages; Jane Scruton for Garden Cottage; Hilary Robertson and Alastair McCowan for the Old Brewery; Roland Shiers for the Old Printworks.
And always, always to Popi – for hiding books from me, among many other services – and to my darling Peggy, for being the light of my life and knowing The Gruffalo by heart.