Positively Yours

by Amanda Hearty

  Acknowledgements

  Thank you to Jessica Broughton, Kate Tolley, Aislinn Casey and all the team at Transworld in the UK, for their hard work, help and advice.

  A big thanks to Eoin McHugh and Lauren Hadden in the Transworld Ireland office for their support and kindness.

  To all in Gill Hess Ltd, Dublin, in particular Gill and Simon Hess, Declan Heaney and Helen Gleed O’Connor.

  With immense gratitude to Francesca Liversidge for all her guidance, help and support.

  To my husband Mick – thank you for all your help; from taking Holly to the park so I could write to giving me a man’s perspective on pregnancy, but most of all thanks for being you. I love you.

  To my beautiful daughter Holly – I love you so much. You are so loving, sweet, funny and kind – you are my little pet, and I adore you. You were the inspiration for this book.

  To my Mum, Marita, the best Mum in the world, thanks for all your love, friendship, encouragement and belief in all of us.

  To my Dad, James, who can always point us in the right direction.

  To my two sisters, Laura and Fiona, and my brother James, you are all so caring, kind, thoughtful and fun. I’m so glad we get to see each other every day!

  Thanks to Tom and Breda Hearty – my wonderful in-laws.

  To Louise Malone, a great doctor, but an even better friend, thanks not just for all your help with this book, but for answering all my own medical and baby questions! Any medical errors in the book are my own fault.

  Thanks to Geoff McEvoy for his insight into stockbroking.

  Thank you to Amy Shortall and Denise O’Connor for all their help with my research.

  Thanks to all my friends for their encouragement and support.

  About the Author

  Amanda Hearty lives in Blackrock, Co. Dublin, with her husband Michael and their little daughter Holly. Amanda works in a busy Dublin publishers, and studied Commerce at UCD and has a Masters in Marketing from the Smurfit School of Business, Dublin. Growing up in a house full of books, writing, dreams and ideas, and with her mother, Marita Conlon-McKenna, being a very successful author, it was inevitable that Amanda would one day put pen to paper and begin to write. Are You Ready? was her first novel and an Irish bestseller, also published by Transworld Ireland. Positively Yours is her second novel.

  Also by Amanda Hearty

  Are You Ready?

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  POSITIVELY YOURS

  A TRANSWORLD IRELAND BOOK: 9781848270060

  Version 1.0 Epub ISBN: 9781409093985

  First published in 2009 by Transworld Ireland

  Copyright © Amanda Hearty 2009

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