Thank you to Chris Andreko, Sarah Kahn, Emer Martin, Amy Cherry, Don De Grazia, Jon Baird, Trevor Engleson, Alex Mebed, Robin Robertson, Gerry Howard, Katherine Fry and, most of all, Elizabeth Quinn.
To various trainers, artists and friends in Chicago, Miami, London and Edinburgh, for not being Lucy and Lena.
To everybody who has bought the books and watched the films and thus saved me from having to get a proper job for years.
Irvine Welsh