To E. R.
Acknowledgements
I am grateful to the following for reading and offering advice on the novel during its period of gestation: Helen Ash, James Buxton, Jane Dorner, Mary Dove, Roger Elliott, Lorna Gibb, John Hands, Tom Holland, Hunter Steele and Janet Todd.
Charles Palliser (1947–)
Before becoming a full-time writer in 1990, Charles Palliser taught literature and creative writing at universities in the UK and the US. He has published four novels: The Quincunx, The Sensationist, Betrayals and The Unburied. The Quincunx, which has sold over one million copies internationally, was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize by the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. His fiction has been translated into a dozen languages. He has also written for radio and television. He is an American citizen, but has lived in the UK since childhood.
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