I would like to thank my agent Kate Burke, and also Chloe Seager at Diane Banks Associates.
Thank you to everyone at Pan Macmillan. To my diligent editor Victoria Hughes-Williams and the rest of the team: Natalie McCourt, Stuart Dwyer, Holly Sheldrake, Lloyd Jones, James Annal, Matthew Garrett and Jess Duffy. I appreciate all of your hard work behind the scenes.
To Debbie Nash, for being the ongoing inspiration for my (human) heroine, even though you are more of a dog person.
To my sister Emma, for your empathy, encouragement and support.
To my children, Suse and Louis, for your incredible patience throughout this process. Thank you Suse for being an eagle-eyed editor-in-training; your grammatical knowledge puts me to shame.
Lastly, and mostly, to Phil. Even with a broken leg, you kept the show on the road. Without you, this book wouldn’t have happened.
MD, 2016
First published 2016 by Macmillan
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