Elmet

Acknowledgements

Thank you to all those at Artellus Ltd., and particularly to Leslie Gardner and Darryl Samaraweera. Thank you to Becky Walsh for her patience, meticulousness and risk-taking, and for seeing the potential in my early manuscript. Thank you to the rest of the team at John Murray, including Tom Duxbury, and especially to Yassine Belkacemi, for his enthusiasm for the project.

Thank you to my early readers: Alastair Bealby, Sophie Howard, Carla Suthren and Lisa Girdwood.

Thanks and love to Caroline Mozley, Harold Mozley, Olivia Mozley and Neil Johnson.

Thank you most of all to Megan Girdwood, without whom I could never have finished this novel, let alone had the courage to seek its publication.