So the blog was created. Anyone who has ever had a blog will understand the wonder that is receiving comments on it.
So I would like to thank ALL those people who shared their stories, jokes and opinions on my blog pages. In particular Becky Harvey, for words of such beauty they made me cry, Leah Richardson, Andrea Donovan and Jack Mackensie, Marie McVeigh, Jayme Lyon my gorgeous cousin, and Gail Thomson my beautiful (inside and out) sister.
I need to thank all those blog characters and partners in crime without whom there would be no stories or adventures: Live-in Ex-Boyfriend, Homeless Friend, High-Powered Political Friend, Beautiful Asian Friend, Male Friend, Beautiful Niece With the Small Bottom, Double D the Bride to Be; David Seddon, Claire Adams, Geoff Stanton, all the staff at the Union Club, Soho and Café Mozart.
Justin McKeating, for including some of my stories in a blog digest, thank you so much. You’ve no idea how proud I felt to see my words in print.
Then I started writing a book, a process that couldn’t have been completed without the coffee and kindness supplied by Michael and his team at Inhabition. Thanks also go to Jean Stafford-Smith, for proof-reading the early draft. My apologies, it got too rude for me to send you the rest.
Unbelievable thanks now go to amazing agents at William Morris, Rowan Lawton and Eugenie Furniss, for thinking that I could do it and being so clever and taking me to posh places for meetings.
And to the heavenly group of ladies that is Macmillan’s women’s fiction team. In particular Rebecca Saunders, for liking it, getting it and knowing it better than I do. Also to Jenny Geras, Imogen Taylor, Trisha Jackson, Eli Dryden, Vicki Harris, Rebecca Ikin and Helen Guthrie.
I have a few more biggies. These people allowed me to morph them into fictional characters. For that and many other reasons I love them to bits.
Julia Veidt. Best friend extraordinaire.
Simon Paul Sutton. This book will always be a tribute to our times in Camden. I hope you enjoyed them as much as I did. Thank you for them and for those to come.
Paul Hamann. A wonderful man and the fruit of my search.
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