Gareth Williams, thank you for my pretty website, and to all my other friends, especially Simon Woolley, Matthew Freeman, and Gregg Mills: thanks for your patience when I’m always promising to meet up and send dates … and then never do because of vague, book-based reasons.
Paul L Martin, thank you for the years I spent producing cabaret shows with you on the Battersea Barge and in Soho. Working with some of the best drag queens in the business has proved invaluable in the writing of this book. I’m raising a glass to Trinity Million … and Ashby-de-la-Zouch.
Huge thanks to Sue and Peter Counsell for your continued support.
Mum, thanks for getting me through my teenage years relatively unscathed, unlike poor Noah. This one’s for you, with lots of love.
And finally, to Sarah Counsell, my screenwriting partner and long-suffering best friend – whatever I write here won’t ever be enough to express my gratitude for the love, sacrifice, kindness and help you have given me over the last year of writing this sequel, so I’ll just say this: I could never have done this without you.
SIMON X
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