Thank you, Mum. Always my first and most important reader! I’m eternally grateful for your constant patience, support, encouragement, and belief in me. Thank you for always being there for me – I don’t know what I’d do without you. Love you lots!
Marie Landry, my best friend and my absolute favourite spectacular nut! There are so many in-jokes and nods to us in this book, but none is more intentional than the line Cleo says to Marnie – “Thank you for being the best best friend ever.” I am so lucky to get to call you my best friend and I’m grateful every day to have you in my life! I love you to bits! A huge thank you also to Nancy Landry for the constant love and support, even from half a world away!
Thank you to Bill, Toby, Cathie, and Bev for your continued love and enthusiasm. Thank you to Jayne Lloyd and Charlotte McFall for being such wonderful friends, and an extra special shoutout to Kirsty Oughton for always being so lovely!
I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who I chat to on social media, who I’ve connected with thanks to books, and to all of you who show me so much support and kindness on a daily basis. A big shoutout to some Facebook groups who support me tirelessly and are an absolute pleasure to be part of. A huge and heartfelt thank you to all the members and admins of Vintage Vibes and Riveting Reads, The Friendly Book Community, The Spirituality Café, Chick Lit and Prosecco, Book Swap Central, and Fiction Addicts at Socially Distanced Book Club. If you’re a booklover looking for somewhere to brighten your day, lift your spirits, and make you feel like you’ve found a group of people who understand why we always buy more books even though we need scaffolding to hold up our current to-read pile, please find your way to these groups! You will be glad you did – although your to-read list may not!
Thank you to my fantastic agent, Amanda Preston, and my brilliant editor Emily Ruston, along with the rest of the wonderful and hardworking Boldwood team and the lovely Boldwood authors! It’s a total joy to belong to Team Boldwood!
And finally, thank you for reading! I hope you enjoyed falling down the rabbit hole into The Wonderland Teapot and sharing Cleo and Bram’s story. It was imagining these two and the goings-on inside a Wonderland-themed tearoom that turned Ever After Street from a standalone book into a series, so this one will always have a special place in my heart. I hope you’ll come with me for the next book, where we’ll be joining Franca in The Nutcracker Shop at Christmas! There are always many more happily ever afters to come!