The Monster's Wife(90)

In a soft voice she answered, we’re free.





ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


I’d like to thank everyone who read an early draft of this novel and encouraged me to continue, especially Allan Guthrie, Adrienne Green and my creative writing tutors at Lancaster University, Graham Mort and George Green. Thanks to Martin Goodman, for knowing just how to hearten a flagging writer and for his excellent editorial skills: this book has found its true home within the discomfort zone of Barbican Press. Thanks to Mark and Sandra Atherton for their hospitality when I stayed at the Old Hall Cottage on Hoy to research Orcadian history. Finally, thanks to my family for their unfailing eccentricity, which provides more inspiration than they know: to my partner John Brewer for his patient support and creative stimulus; to Dan and Sarah Horsley, generous readers both; to small people Violet, Chloe and Annie - on whom I test many of my briefer gothic narratives; to Samuel Horsley (brother and enforcer); and to my mother, Lee Horsley, for making me a writer, even if she ran out of wool.