Thanks are due to – those who have believed in my work and in this book: Sarah Chalfant and Alba Ziegler-Bailey; Mitzi Angel; Rajni George; and Sigrid Rausing, for also carrying an excerpt in Granta.

A handful of friends I don’t need to name.

As ever, my wife Rinka and my daughter Radha, who, in different ways, make it possible for me to write.