Acknowledgements

These are the people to whom I owe a thousand thanks: each of you knows why.

Tony Baines; Barbara Bradshaw; Maxine Hitchcock; Yvonne Holland; Cathy Kelly; Marian Keyes; Padraig Murray; Keshini Naidoo; Fiona O’Brien; Hilary Reynolds; Moira Reilly.

My husband, Malcolm; my daughter, Clara.