Thanks to: My inestimable agent, Laura Morris; Candida Lacey and all of team Myriad, most especially Emma Dowson, Linda McQueen and Dawn Sackett; Alistair Beaton, Halton Cheadle, Damon Galgut, Paul Herzberg, Jennifer Kavanagh, Allan Leas, Jack Lewis, Gaby Naher, Neil Olson, Kathleen Satchwell, Wendy Searle, Edmund White; and of course Peter, whose support and love has been the most vital help of all.
The extract from The Song Before it is Sung (Bloomsbury 2008) is quoted by kind permission of Justin Cartwright.
The line from ‘Elsewhere’ in Citizen of Elsewhere (Happenstance 2013) is quoted by kind permission of Jonty Driver.