Alfie The Holiday Cat

Acknowledgements

I am so grateful to have been able to write a fourth Alfie book — Alfie is such a huge part of my life that I can’t imagine it without him, so thanks again to everyone who reads the books, and enjoys Alfie and George’s journey. We wouldn’t be able to do this without you, so a huge cheer for you all.

On a serious note, we were all devastated by the Grenfell Tower fire and the lives affected by it. A wonderful auction was set up by Authors for Grenfell Tower and we offered a chance to bid on your cat being a character in the new book. Thank you again to everyone who put in bids for this wonderful cause, I was so thrilled and wish you could all have won, but my heartfelt thanks and congratulations go to Faye Talbott and her amazingly special cat Lily. Lily makes her debut in this book … I hope the fame doesn’t go to her paws!

Thanks as always to the wonderful team at my publishers, Avon, and especially my lovely editors Helen Huthwaite and Victoria Oundjian — always a pleasure! Also, a very special thank you to Rhian, for a very supportive and clever copy edit. And of course my agents Diane Banks Associates for all your continued hard work on my and Alfie’s behalf!

Again, it has been a joy to bring Alfie to life once again, so a massive thanks to anyone who has made this possible and I hope you enjoy reading Alfie’s next adventures as much as I did writing them.