Come Dance With Me

Acknowledgements

If the goodwill and hours and miles of help I had on this novel were laid end to end they would reach from here to Kahakuloa Head.

Andrew Bown of Status Quo was my consultant and guide in all musical matters and gave me encyclopaedic data.

Nunu Whiting and Dave Salt let me visit Waterloo Sunset rehearsal studios and Claire Ferris gave me a complete tour.

Ben Schlapak, Manager of Honolulu International Airport, graciously authorised my enquiries and sent me useful descriptions. Jenny Hausler of the Visitors’ Information Office reported on the gardens and the now-closed Mini Hotel.

Emmae Gibson, like me, went through Honolulu International Airport in 1993 and generously shared her impressions.

Dennis Camblin of Hawaii spent days travelling in Maui on my behalf. He sent me voluminous notes and hundreds of photographs as well as books, maps and pressed flowers.

Graeme Wend-Walker provided detailed notes, photographs, and diagrams of Los Angeles International Airport.

Susan Ruskin gave me her current observations of LAX.

Rob Warren of the Greenwich Observatory supplied astronomical data.

Dr Michael Feher of Chelsea & Westminster Hospital was my consultant in diabetic matters.

Dr Ben Hoban answered general medical questions.

Liz Calder, Katherine Greenwood, Phoebe Hoban and Dominic Power gave useful comments.

Gundula, my wife, translated ‘Der Tod und das Mädchen’ on pp. 28–29 and ‘Herr Oluf’ on p. 32. She also kept me up to date with London in general and fashions in particular.

Two National Geographic articles were valuable sources: ‘Hawai’i: Preserving the Breath’ by Paul Theroux, December 2002 and ‘Maui: Where Old Hawaii still Lives’ by Kenneth F. Weaver, April 1971.

The ANAPAESTS FOR PEACE T-shirt was derived from Neil Bennett’s cartoon in the 1 May 2001 edition of The Times.

The Daniel Mendoza and Coffee As You Like It are fictional.

The European free-tailed bat who crash-landed on p. 100 was rescued by Ginni Little of the Cornwall Bat Hospital. Now rejoicing in the name of Hobbit Higgins (because of his hairy feet), he is thriving under Mrs Little’s care. The Cornwall Bat Hospital has no income other then private donations and the money it receives from its adoption scheme. Ginni Littles work with these fascinating creatures deserves all possible support.

R.H.

London, 23 July 2004