Acknowledgements

Thanks to everyone who has read early drafts of this novel, particularly Martyn Bedford and Oz Hardwick, Rachel Connor and Anna Chilvers. Thanks to Nathan Ramsden for helping me when my own knowledge ran out.

Thanks to Jamie Cowen, the best literary agent ever, for his insight and for his belief. And also for his penchant for profanities. (All swearwords are his responsibility.)

Thanks to Bekki Wray Rogers for running through it, running with it, and for running with me in general.

And thanks to Kathryn Cheshire, Janette Currie and everyone at HarperCollins and Killer Reads who has worked to make this better than it was.

And last but not least, thanks to Mark, for understanding.