I would like to thank Patrick Janson-Smith and Laura Deacon, Charlotte Humphrey and Tara Hiatt at HarperCollins Foreign Rights; copy-editor Tim Waller for such a fantastic job on this book and its predecessor, Florence & Giles; and, as always, my agent Sam Copeland at Rogers, Coleridge and White.
Thanks too to all those people who have given me such strong support over the last few years, especially Nicola Morgan, Gabrielle Kim, Ben Hatch, James Smythe, Claire King, Josh Alliston, Kate Mayfield, Kim Curran, Andrew James, Lorna Fergusson, Barry Walsh, Mike Jarman, Sarah Callejo, Rhian Davies and Scott Pack.