Cuckoo Song

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I would like to thank my editors, Ruth Alltimes and Rachel Petty; my agent, Nancy; my writers’ group for feedback and support; the London Transport Museum (and in particular Emily Cartwright for patiently answering my somewhat surreal questions about trams); Troublesome Things: A History of Fairies and Fairy Stories by Diane Purkiss (Penguin Books Ltd 2001); We Danced All Night: A Social History of Britain Between the Wars by Martin Pugh (Vintage 2009); Women in the 1920s by Pamela Horn (Sutton Publishing Ltd 1995); Below Stairs: The Bestselling Memoirs of a 1920s Kitchen Maid by Margaret Powell (Pan Books 2011); 1920s Britain by Janet Shepherd & John Shepherd (Shire 2010); Changelings: An Essay by D. L. Ashliman 1997, and for his fascinating collections of folk texts; my beloved Martin; the Geffrye Museum of the Home; Chris Fox, and last of all my grandmother, whom I never met, but who threw her home village into confusion as a young woman by unexpectedly returning from London on a motorbike.