Always, in December(109)

Lastly, thanks to my lovely older sister, Jenny, for letting me stay in her beautiful house to write this book (and to Tom, her husband, because by virtue of staying in her house I am also staying in his…). And thank you to my nieces, Lily and Ella, for helping/distracting me and making me take breaks from staring at my laptop all day to play zoos/The Floor is Lava/puzzles and, in Ella’s case, to put this story aside to help her write stories of her own, inevitably about a girl called Jane and a horse called Daisy.

If you’ve read this far then you, reader, also deserve thanks. Thank you for reading this book—it makes it all worthwhile.