Thanks to: Kate Medina and Derrill Hagood and everyone at Random House for their faith in me and this collection; Declan Meade of The Stinging Fly Press, who first published this collection in Ireland, for his belief in and commitment to short stories, with thanks also to Thomas Morris and all the Stinging Fly team; Mark Richards, Lyndsey Ng, and all at John Murray, my UK publishers; Victoria Allen, for the wonderful cover design; the brilliant Lucy Luck at Aitken Alexander, whom I’m extremely fortunate to have as my agent; the Munster Literature Centre, especially Patrick Cotter and Jennifer Matthews; my writing group—Marie Gethins, Barbara Leahy, and Marie Murphy—who provided feedback with a stellar combination of brutal honesty and kindness; Lory Manrique-Hyland, for her workshops in 2010 and 2011; the Arts Council, for awarding me a bursary to work on this collection; Listowel Writers Week and Noelle Campbell-Sharpe, for my time spent writing at beautiful Cill Rialaig; Tessa Hadley and M. J. Hyland, at whose workshops parts of this book took shape; Cressida Leyshon and Deborah Treisman at The New Yorker; Anne Enright, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Ita Daly, Ethel Rohan, and Joe Melia, who provided encouragement in various ways; the journals, writing competitions, and websites who afforded my stories publication space and prizes; and all my writing friends, who have been so generous in their support.
Enormous thanks to John and our children, Ellie, Áine, and Rory, for things far too numerous to list here.
DANIELLE MCLAUGHLIN lives in County Cork, Ireland. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, The Irish Times, The Stinging Fly, and various anthologies. McLaughlin won the William Trevor/Elizabeth Bowen International Short Story Competition in 2012. She has also won the Willesden Herald International Short Story Prize in 2013, the Merriman Short Story Competition in memory of Maeve Binchy, and the Dromineer Literary Festival short story competition in 2013.
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