Huge thanks to the following for all their help and support with this book:

Vicki Mellor, as well as Lucy Hale, Samantha Fletcher, Philippa McEwan, Karen Whitlock, all those in Sales, Marketing and Publicity and the entire team at Pan Macmillan.

Beth deGuzman, Kirsiah Depp, Karen Kosztolnyik and everyone at Grand Central Publishing.

Camilla Bolton, my agent, and everyone at the Darley Anderson Literary Agency, including Mary Darby, Kristina Egan, Georgia Fuller, Salma Zarugh, Jade Kavanagh and Sheila David.

Sylvie Rabineau at WME.

Lucy Hanington, Clare Donoghue and Tim Weaver.

And Mum, Allie, Jessica, Jack and my wife, Jo.