The Diplomat’s Wife

Acknowledgements

I should like to thank Hugh Chawner for his help with Spain, Geoff Skingsley for his help with France and Colin West for his help with the Gaelic.

Thanks are also due to my agent, Oli Munson, to Susannah Hamilton, my editor, and to Richenda Todd and Liz Hatherell for their copy-editing and proof-reading. And to my wife Barbara for accompanying me on the arduous research trips required to write this book.