Acknowledgements

POLARIS was first published by Methuen in 1978;

HORRORS OF THE ROAD in Cosmopolitan, July 1984;

THE SAD LIFE OF THE RICH in Company, July 1984;

CHRISTMAS LISTS in A CHRISTMAS FEAST, Macmillan, 1983;

AND THEN TURN OUT THE LIGHT in Cosmopolitan, 1983;

BIRTHDAY! in WINTER’S TALES, Macmillan, 1981;

THE SCHOOL RUN in Woman’s Own, September 1984;

THE BOTTOM LINE AND THE SHARP END in Cosmopolitan, January 1985;

OH MARY DON’T YOU CRY ANY MORE in Woman’s Own, 1982