If He Wakes
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They were family. They were here for the girls. For me. And as I watched them all pile into our house, I thanked my lucky stars for them and vowed to enjoy every second I could.
To take things at the slowest pace I could. No running around, trying to make sure everyone was okay, no proving how indispensable I was and how efficient I could be. No showing off or playing the martyr. No getting annoyed and snapping.
I would do nothing but appreciate how precious each moment was, each second, because now I understood that tomorrow is never promised and anything can happen at any time. Anything at all.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank everyone who gave me support and encouragement whilst writing this book. My wonderful agent, Jane Gregory and all of the team at Gregory & Co, Stephanie Glencross, Claire Morris, Mary Jones and Irene Baldoni. My brilliant editor Louise Cullen, and the team at Canelo for all their work and offering me such a great opportunity.
I am also very grateful to Patricia and Roland Young, Kirsty Brennan, Jill Pilkington, and Heather Peake for their unwavering support and for reading the early versions. Chris Whittaker for his legal advice and Debbie Leatherbarrow for her fantastic critiques. I also need to thank my fellow writers on the Curtis Brown Creative 2014 online course who saw this as an initial idea and helped me shape it.
A special thanks goes to Paula Daly for her unwavering encouragement, and above all my gratitude goes to Stephen, Aidan and Talia. Thank you for listening to every idea I have, for helping me come up with new ones, for the special writing pens and pads and for your never ending support and love. Thank you.
First published in the United Kingdom in 2018 by Canelo
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