The Concert Ticket

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I WOULD LIKE TO OFFER my thanks to Kate Davis, Lance Fitzgerald, Leigh Butler, and everyone else at the Penguin Group who worked to make this book a reality; my copy editor, Anna Jardine, for her unerring eye; and my wonderful UK editor, Mary Mount, for her astute reading. As ever, I am deeply grateful to Warren Frazier, my agent, for so many things, not least of them honesty, and Marian Wood, my publisher and editor, for her perfect understanding and her friendship. Finally, I would like to thank my family—my brother, Aleksei Kartsev, and my mother, Natalia Kartseva, for always being there during the saddest time in my life, and my husband, Michael Klyce, my first reader and greatest help. Most of all, I want to thank my father, Boris Grushin. Thank you, papa, for everything.