In a Dark, Dark Wood
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To everyone else – Clara, Poppy, Susannah, Parisa, Becky, Christian, Dan, Lisa, Ceri, Alex, Fran, Rachel, Clara (again) and everyone I don’t have space to list here – I wish I could mention you all, but please know that I love and miss you. Particularly the talented, long-suffering, modest and generally all-round-delightful publicity department.
Thanks always to my first readers, Meg, Eleanor, Kate and Alice, for being brutal and supportive in the necessary proportions and asking all the right questions.
And many thanks to the writers and friends who took time out of their own problems to ponder mine; online and off, please know that you make life better and more amusing every day. Eva, Emma, Leila, Eve, Jenn, Geri, Jess and everyone in BF and YAT, you make life better and more amusing every day.
For technical help, I owe a great debt to Sam, Jon, Richard and Lorna who all helped with details of policing, medical protocol and firearms. Needless to say any errors are mine (and I apologise for the dramatic licence I have taken with some of their advice.)
Enormous thanks Eve and Jack at the Eve White literary agency, for all their care and support.
And finally to my dear family, particularly Ian and the children, thank you for letting me tap away in the spare room when you would so often have rather been doing other things. I love you all.
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