And Jocasta Hamilton! – who edited this novel with tact and taste and consummate skill, and to whom I’m very grateful indeed. You’ve made me a better writer.
But my greatest thanks of course go to my wife Maria Aitken, a creature of the theatre from the age of four. She answered my questions at all hours of the day and night and without her, yet again, my work would be a thin thing indeed: as would my life.
Patrick McGrath
New York
March 2017
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