Sister

Acknowledgments

I’m not sure if anyone reads the acknowledgments, but I hope so because without the following people, this novel would never have been written or published.

First, I want to thank my UK editor, the wonderful Emma Beswetherick, for her creativity, insight, and for not only having the courage of her convictions but inspiring other people to share them. I would also like to thank Sarah Knight and Christine Kopprasch at Crown for all their support and for getting this story across the Atlantic!

I would like to thank my agent, Felicity Blunt, at Curtis Brown, as well as Kate Cooper, Nick Marston, and Tally Garner, also at Curtis Brown.

I want to thank, hugely, Livia Firth, Michele Matthews, Kelly Martin, Sandra Leonard, Trixie Rawlinson, Alison Clements, and Amanda Jobbins, who helped in so many practical ways.

Thank you, Cosmo and Joe, for understanding when I needed to write and for being proud.

Last, but most of all, my thanks go to my younger sister, Tora Orde-Powlett—the inspiration for the book and a continued blessing.