Thanks to  … 

Everyone at Hot Key Books. Thank you for being brilliant to work with, for the encouragement and the support. You are the best bunch of people and you make me feel like I can write anything. It’s a pleasure working with you.

Thanks to Adrian Sington for answering my calls, and Buzz for coping with me being a Moody Myrtle after long days and deadline panic sessions.

Thank you to Andrew Anthonio for being my constant security blanket and dear friend.

John de Garis for the cover photo, and my very own Renée and Flo, Elise and Kerry, for modelling for me again.

Thanks to Kate Earl, Louise Fletcher, Janet Unit and Sinead Wheadon for reminding me of how appalling my behaviour was during our A-levels and helping remember how it was to be an eighteen-year-old girl on Guernsey. Drunk, basically.

Thanks to my aunt and uncle for having geese and a beautiful home that I could call upon for inspiration. Thanks to my dad for letting me moan about my workload on the phone and my sister for doing the same.

Thanks to Eleanor Bergstein for the brilliant chats and best advice.

Thanks to everyone who read Paper Aeroplanes, and for all the feedback, good and bad.

Thanks to my husband for coping with my procrastinations and laughing at my jokes, and my BFFs Louise and Carrie for the constant inspiration. Both of you will see your influence in this book; I hope it makes you laugh.

And even though I have never met him, I should probably thank God.