I’d like to thank Pamela Gervais for sharing her knowledge of the Italian pizzicato style of playing string instruments and for suggesting a name for The Tin Roof Toms, and Susanne Bellamy for suggesting ways to soften Keir into a hero to dream about. I’d like to also thank all my Facebook friends, too numerous to name here, for their many and varied helpful suggestions as to how my heroine should deflect the other woman’s malice. Victoria grew as character from these suggestions and developed a sense of humour.