Fly By Night

Acknowledgements

I would also like to thank the following people: Maureen Waller for her fascinating and colourful book, 1700: Scenes from London Life, from which I learned about marriage houses, ‘a fair mark’ and countless other fascinating details of eighteenth-century life; the Duelling Association, for showing me a historical world full of wit, wickedness and panache; Colin Shaw of Roving Romania, who showed us around the wild countryside of that bruised and beautiful country, with its tiny shrines, name-day celebrations and ‘weddings of the dead’, and the denizens of Zehazel for all their support over the years.