Special thanks must go to KD Grace for her unflinching encouragement, hours of writing talk, wonderful Anglo-American Christmasses and for not panicking that time I nearly drowned us on the way home from Avebury. Blame the ghost – I do.
Likewise, love is owed to the dazzlingly clever Melanie Garrett for gourmet cookery, inspired criticism, big ideas and bigger cocktails. She taught me that there is no problem in life or literature that cannot be knitted into submission. The next coffee in Cobham is on me.
I also gratefully remember Iain Banks, a generous friend and cherished correspondent who at all times and in all places showed me how to be a real writer.
Finally I’d be nothing without my friends and family. To Julie Revell, who never reads anything I write; to my brothers John and Joseph and my sister Jacqueline and to their families; and at last to my long-suffering parents, George and Ellen Callaghan – thanks. We got there in the end.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
HELEN CALLAGHAN was born in California to British parents, and her early years were spent in both the United States and United Kingdom. She was a fiction specialist and buyer for Athena Bookshop, Dillons, and Waterstones for eight years. She read archaeology at Cambridge University, a subject she is still passionate about, and works in IT.
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COPYRIGHT
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, organizations, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
DEAR AMY. Copyright © 2016 by Helen Callaghan. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Originally published in Great Britain in 2016 by Michael Joseph, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK.
First US Harper Paperback edition published 2016.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Callaghan, Helen, author.
Title: Dear Amy / Helen Callaghan.
Description: First United States edition. | New York : Harper Paperbacks, 2016.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016011257 | ISBN 9780062433923 (paperback)
Subjects: LCSH: Teachers--Fiction. | Missing persons--Fiction. | Cambridge (England)--Fiction. | BISAC: FICTION / Suspense. | FICTION / Psychological. | FICTION / Contemporary Women. | GSAFD: Suspense fiction.
Classification: LCC PR6103.A445 D43 2016 | DDC 823/.92--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016011257
EPub Edition October 2016 ISBN 9780062433930
ISBN 978-0-06-243392-3 (pbk.)
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