The Misbegotten

Acknowledgements

As ever, my profound thanks go to the whole team at Orion for all their expertise, support and hard work; and especially to Eleanor Dryden and Genevieve Pegg for their enthusiastic, insightful and exacting treatment of the manuscript. Many, many thanks to my agent Nicola Barr for being so talented, skilful and patient.

A big thank you to my friends and family, who are always behind me all the way, handing out books and only ever feeding back the good comments; and this time especially to Sarah Green, for her infectious enthusiasm about Bath and her guided walks – even with that knee.