Acknowledgements (thank-yous)

A whole team of people have helped me write this book.

Thank you to my wonderful editor, Anne McNeil, and my magnificent agent, Caroline Walsh.

A special big thanks to Samuel Perrett, Polly Lyall Grant, Lizz Skelly, and Camilla Leask.

And to everyone else at Hachette Children’s Group, Hilary Murray Hill, Andrew Sharp, Valentina Fazio, Naomi Berwin, Katy Cattell, Georgi Russell, Nicola Goode, Katherine Fox, Alison Padley, Rebecca Livingstone.

Thanks to all at Little Brown, Megan Tingley, Jackie Engel, Lisa Yoskowitz, Marisa Finkelstein.

And most important of all, Maisie, Clemmie, Xanny.

And SIMON for his excellent advice on absolutely everything.

I couldn’t do it without you.