Blackbird

by Tom Wright

  Finally, she came over and hugged me. ‘Now, Biscuit,’ she said softly. ‘Now you can come home.’

  Acknowledgements

  Some of my early sources of inspiration were benign, real credits to the universe, while others, including many of the more valuable ones, were wildly dysfunctional, irredeemably mean or just flat out crazy. I’d like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for all of them – the innumerable friends, enemies, acquaintances, accomplices, soul-takers, teachers, abusers, miscellaneous kin and others who by walking with, or near, me through significant stretches of our lives filled my head with a wonderland of stories.

  And as for the here and now: along with the many others who richly deserve acknowledgment for their kind patience and direct or indirect support, proofing with the vision of eagles, feedback and general cheerleading in getting Blackbird aloft – like my great friends in Portugal as well as those across the rest of Europe, Australia and North America, not to mention my long-suffering family, office staff, daily associates and patients – I’d especially like to thank my editor at Canongate, Francis Bickmore; my agent, Victoria Hobbs of A.M. Heath in London; my manager and good friend, Dr. Marshall Thomas of 7Arts Foundation and Colossal Concepts Management, a polymath who never calls himself that but occasionally bestows the title upon those who have won his invaluable regard, and who keeps a garden in which he attempts to grow others of his kind; and the Honourable James Edmund Byng, Force of Nature.

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