A huge thank you to my writer friends. Writing can be such a lonely business and you keep me sane (and watered with booze). Special mention must go to Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Sally Quilford, Leigh Forbes, Helen Hunt, Helen Kara, Karen Clarke, Rowan Coleman, Miranda Dickinson, Kate Harrison, Julie Cohen and Tamsyn Murray for being particularly lovely.
Lastly, and by no means least, all my love and thanks to Chris and Seth. I wrote this book while I was on maternity leave – not because I had a very sleepy baby and lots of time on my hands – but because I thought I was going to go mental from sleep deprivation and writing was the only thing that kept me sane. I couldn’t have done it without you Chris. Thank you for pushing the baby around town at 5a.m. so I could sleep, thank you for taking him to visit your relatives so I could write and thank you for telling me, over and over, that I could do it. It looks like I did.