Thanks to: Ali ‘the golden’ Gunn, Rachel Hore and Fiona McIntosh: all, for everything. Nick Marston, Carol Jackson, Lorna McDonald, Jonathan Lloyd and all at Curtis Brown, and Nick Sayers, Anne O’Brien, Jennifer Parr, Yvette Cowles, Claire Round, Phyllis Acolatse, Vera Brice, David North, Martin Palmer, Adrian Bourne and all the reps at HarperCollins. Plus: Katie Stone for her unfailing support, Ben Moor for the science as well as being Ben Moor; Salty Sandra McKay, originator of McKay BMS; Susan Hoyer; Jason Foxwell-Moss for the chess and one or two other things; James Crawford for his kitchen; Shappi Khorsandi; Karen Murphy MRCS, official medical adviser to TTA (although all inaccuracies and exaggerations are of course mine); Katrina McCormack, Lisa Jewell, and Robin and Dominic, my brilliant brothers. This book was written listening to Equatorial by Chris Hoban.