Once in a Lifetime

by Chrissie Manby

  Acknowledgments

  Another year, another book. Did I say that last year? Anyway, as usual, I couldn’t have done it without the support of dozens of people.

  At Hodder, Emily Kitchin and Madeleine Woodfield worked especially hard to turn this book around at short notice. Thank you both. Thank you Alice Morley, Louise Swannell and Jenni Leech for your sterling PR work. Thank you, copy-editor Helen Parham, for catching all my spelling mistakes. And thank you Jo Myler, for a wonderful new cover look. Thank you also to Laetitia Rutherford and Megan Carroll at Watson Little.

  In what has occasionally been a crappy old year chez Manby, I’m especially grateful for the love of my friends. Victoria Routledge, Jane Wright and Alex Potter, thank you for listening, for making me laugh, and for holding my hand through the dark parts. A special mention also has to go to Jane Ayres, Kirsten Hesketh and Moira Please, who lifted my spirits more than they could know with tea, cake and unicorns, while I finished a final edit.

  As always, I’d like to thank my family. Mum, Kate, Lee, Harrison and Lukas. You’re the best. And Mark. Still there. Still putting up with me. Still making the tea in the morning. Thank you for everything.

  April 2018