I said to my mother, “I’m not walking away from everything, Mum.”
She thought for a moment and then she replied.
“I see that, Lydia Mary. You are walking toward your life.”
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Thank you to:
Amy Einhorn, Kate Parkin, Liz Stein, Nick Sayers, Helen Richard, and all at G. P. Putnam’s Sons and Hodder & Stoughton.
Nicky Lund, Allison Hunter, Harriet Moore, Jennie Kassanoff, Dianne Festa, Katey Driscoll, Alison Jean Lester, Eimear O’Connor, and my mother, Monica Casey, who gave me particular help, encouragement, or insights at different stages of the manuscript.
My friends in Ireland, England, and the United States. My family, Casey and O’Connor. My sons, James and Marcus.
And Lizzy Kremer, David Forrer, Rosamund Lupton, and my beloved husband, Joseph O’Connor. Quite simply, without you, I would never have got to the end . . .
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne-Marie Casey is a novelist, screenwriter, and playwright. Her film and TV scripts have been produced in the UK and Ireland and her theatrical adaptations of Little Women and Wuthering Heights enjoyed sell-out runs at the Gate Theatre in Dublin. No One Could Have Guessed the Weather, her first book, was an international bestseller. She is married to the novelist Joseph O’Connor. They live in Dublin, Ireland, with their two sons.
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