With thanks to:
My agent, Peter Straus
My editor, Marianne Velmans
Maureen Allan, Helen Clyne, Umar Salam,
Ali Smith, and Sarah Wood for Cambridge in July, with special gratitude to Ali Smith
Reagan Arthur, Eve Atkinson-Worden, Helen Clyne, and Marianne Velmans for being enthusiastic manuscript readers
My cousin, Major Michael Keech
Stephen Cotton, he knows why
David Lindgren for the sheep story
And last, but not least, Russell Equi, god of all things vehicular