I would also like to thank Wendy Bough and the Caledonia Novel Award for giving me the opportunity to work with my wonderful agent Giles Milburn. Editing the book together was an absolute delight. And also to Laura McCallen of Canelo Publishing for realising my dream of becoming a published author.
My research brought me into contact with many kind and helpful people. Thanks to Peter Osborne for letting me base some of Lukas Schiller’s experience of pre-war Germany on Ulrich Steinhilper’s account Spitfire on My Tail. Other books that inspired me were Matthew Barry Sullivan’s Thresholds of Peace; James Leasor’s The One That Got Away and Owen Sheers’ Resistance.
I’d also like to mention Nina Hannaford of the British Resistance Archive; Paul Matthews, dairy farmer at Bartonsham Farm in Hereford; Mark Palethorpe and the Blewbury Local History Group; Maureen Schaefer and her daughter Delia Swanzy for sharing their memories of Artur; and Julie McCrone of Caledonia TV.
The greatest thanks goes to my husband Chris who patiently read the story in several different forms but needed to take a brisk walk down to the garden shed each time he read the final chapter.
First published in the United Kingdom in 2019 by Canelo
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