Notes & Acknowledgements

My thanks to the editors of the publications, anthologies and online magazines where a number of these stories (sometimes in a slightly different form) first appeared: The Dublin Review; Granta New Writing; The Hippocrates Prize; Love Sunday Magazine; New Short Stories 3 and New Short Stories 4 (both Willesden Herald Prize anthologies); The Manchester Fiction Prize; Prospect; Red Room New Short Stories Inspired by the Brontës; The Royal Society of Literature Review; Salamander; The Ship; The Stinging Fly; The Story: Love, Loss and the Lives of Women: 100 Great Short Stories. Special thanks to Brendan Barrington and Declan Meade, to my agent Rachel Calder, my editor Jen Hamilton-Emery, to Chris Hamilton-Emery and to New Writing North for the financial assistance of a 2013 Northern Writers’ Award, supported by Arts Council England.