Acknowledgements

Thank you to these magical people who made this book happen:

My agent Alex Adsett; Claire Craig and Brianne Collins from Pan Macmillan; illustrator Russell Jeffery from Emigraph; designers at Evi O. Studio; magicians Lawrence Leung, Dom Chambers, Tim Ellis, Vyom Sharma and Claire Yistelle; Lily Paterson, Jonah Pobjie, Ollie Hone, Ruby Messenger, Elsa Thomas, Eve and Harry Welford, Imogen and Angus Maidment-Ponton and the students of Preston South Primary School, for their inspiration; Mum and Dad; Sam Marzden and the Timey Wimey Committee for their excellent advice.

Finally, thank you to Bridget, Bea and Edie, you’re the best family a magician could ask for.