Acknowledgements

Firstly, I need to say a big thank you to Charlotte Ledger and her team at One More Chapter.

Thanks Charlotte for being so enthusiastic about this rather sketchy idea when I first pitched it to you over burgers and curly fries one rainy February night in Five Guys in Soho … I can’t help thinking at the time that my pitch and your enthusiasm might have had something to do with all the Prosecco (aka dutch courage) we’d necked before ‘having’ to watch Magic Mike Live (totally for work! Honest) but thanks for sticking with it and even coming up with the ‘high concept’ which turned it from a sketchy idea to a fully fledged labour of love.

Big thanks also to my writing support posse – Fiona Harper, Iona Grey and Susan Wilson – and most of all my best writing mate Daisy Cummins. Without you guys, I’d probably sink into a puddle of writer’s angst every time I switched on my computer (instead of just every other time)!

I should also say a special thanks to Alice Roberts at the Everyman Screen on the Green for answering all my stupid questions about how to manage a cinema. And also running my favourite local cinema which has turned movie-going into an all round fabulous night out.