I feel like everyone in this list is getting really bored of seeing their names on these pages but that’s just tough luck. If you will insist on sticking around, you’re going to have to be thanked.
Rowan Lawton, thank you for all that you do. I mean, the agenting obvs but really all the rest of it as well. Lynne Drew and Martha Ashby, I literally couldn’t do it without you, which you quite clearly already know, thank you so much.
To everyone else at HC, we’d be here all day and I know you’re already sick of me so I’ll just send cupcakes later, OK? Special thanks to Sarah Benton, Liz Dawson and Louise Swannell for dealing with me this summer, champions the lot of you. Massive thank yous to Blaise McGowan and Georgie White at James Grant and Liane-Louise Smith and Isha Karki at Furniss Lawton, thank you for being so on top of things when I quite clearly am not.
We’re reminded daily that the internet is a wonderful and terrible place and I really want to add a special thank you to the people who genuinely make the interwebs, and therefore the world, a better place. Talking to you all on Twitter and Facebook and Instagram reminds me I’m not alone, even when I’m feeling a little lost, and I appreciate your comments and photos and messages more than you could ever know.
It’s been a funny old year and without these people, God knows where I’d be right now. So thank you Della Bolat, Ryan Child, Kevin Dickson, Philippa Drewer, Ilana Fox, Bren Lee Gomez, Mhairi McFarlane, Rosie Walsh, Terri White, Rachael Wright and Beth Ziemacki. Robert Kelk gets a special thank you for being the best damn brother that ever there was and there’s a huge hefty thank you for Jeff Israel. Thank you for looking after me, feeding my kittens when I go away and taking me to San Diego to see Taylor Swift. If that’s not the sign of a keeper, I don’t know what is.