No One Could Have Guessed the Weather

by Anne-Marie Casey

She paused. It looked okay.

  She rocked back and forward on her chair and took a big swig of coffee.

  She cracked her knuckles and stretched out her fingers.

  They arrived in early September.

  She had begun.

  acknowledgments

  Thank you to my beloved husband, Joseph O’Connor, for everything.

  Thank you to our sons, James and Marcus, and our families, especially my mother, Monica Casey, Sean and Viola O’Connor, Fidelma Casey, and Eimear O’Connor.

  Thank you to Amy Einhorn, my editor and publisher, and all at Amy Einhorn Books/Putnam, especially Liz Stein.

  Thank you to my agents and friends, Nicky Lund and Lizzy Kremer at David Higham Associates in London, and Allison Hunter at Inkwell Management in New York.

  Thank you to all those colleagues and friends who encouraged my writing through the years and the different careers, especially Georgina Abrahams, Jane Wellesley, Lavinia Warner, Dorothy Viljoen, Maggie Pope, Martha O’Neill, Mary Callery, Andrew Meehan, Charlotte Cunningham, much-missed Maeve Binchy, Sarah Barton, Emma Broughton, Gavin Kostick, Michael Barker Caven, Michael Colgan, and all at the Gate Theatre in Dublin.

  Thank you to all my friends, old and new, in England, Ireland, and America, for their enthusiasm, support, and inspiration, especially Amy Jackson, Katey Driscoll, Angela O’Donnell, Dianne Festa, Cathy Kelly, Rosamund Lupton, and Rebecca Miller.

  And remembering always, my father, John Casey, and my friend Dominic Montserrat.

  about the author

  Anne-Marie Casey was a script editor and producer of prime-time UK television drama for ten years before becoming a writer full-time. Her film and TV scripts have been produced in the UK and Ireland, and her theatrical adaptation of Little Women enjoyed a sellout run at the Gate Theatre in Dublin in 2011. No One Could Have Guessed the Weather, her first book, was inspired by her time living in Manhattan and her love-love relationship with the city. She is married to the novelist Joseph O’Connor. They now live in Dublin with their two sons.