Thanks to everyone at the O’Brien Press, especially Emma Byrne and my ever-patient and supportive editor Susan Houlden; Helen Carr for being generally encouraging; Lauren O’Neill for another wonderful cover; everyone who generously spread the word about Mollie, especially Marian Keyes, Claire Hennessy, Nina Stibbe, Sarra Manning and Sarah Webb; Nicola Beauman of Persephone Books; the historians without whose work I couldn’t have written about Mollie’s adventures, Rosemary Cullen Owens, Margaret Ward and especially Senia Paseta. Any historical errors are, of course, entirely my own; the extended Carey and Freyne families; and Patrick, for making me laugh and keeping me going.