We would like to thank Gogglebox, Stephen Lambert, Tania Alexander and Chantal Boyle. Our agent Julian Alexander has been hands on, patient and encouraging. We are enormously grateful to Rachel Johnson and Ivo Dawnay, who have been key friends to us. Liz Marvin successfully juggled a massive, mental load while employing a forensic eye for inaccuracies and continuity as she read the text (as well as detecting hatrolallia).
We want to particularly thank Lorna Russell who had the idea for The Diary in the first place and, with her Olympian overview, steered the content from the splurges we submitted. If it is enjoyable and instructive to read, it’s thanks to Lorna.