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I am so grateful to my brilliant agent, Madeleine Milburn – truly the agent of dreams – for believing in Greenwich Park and being its most tireless champion, and to everyone at the Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film agency for all their help, guidance and patience.

I’m extremely grateful to Colin Sutton for his expert advice on police procedure; any remaining errors are undoubtedly my own.

Those who remember that first antenatal class in the Drapers Arms will know how grateful I was (in the end) for the experience. Thanks Ali, Bonnie and Beth, for getting me through it, and for navigating the strange, twilight world of new motherhood with me.

Thank you Mum and Dad, who have been encouraging me to write my stories for as long as I can remember. Thank you to my sister Jo, for always being my greatest supporter, as I am yours. Extra thanks to Mum, Jo, Lara, Kirsty, Sue and Brendan, and anyone else who was roped into looking after my children for me while I escaped to libraries and cafes to write.

A special thanks must go to Kate and Hannah, for first encouraging me in my mad scheme to write a book during what I’ll always think of as ‘our’ maternity leave. Thank you both – and Jen, Ellie, Portia, Emma, Olivia and Lizzy – for being the kind of friends Helen could only dream of.

To my daughters, Emma and Maddie. Thank you both for sleeping (occasionally).

And my final thanks go to Pete, without whose unfailing love and support this book would never have been written, and to whom it is dedicated.





A NOTE ON THE AUTHOR



Katherine Faulkner is a novelist and journalist. After studying history at Cambridge, she completed a postgraduate diploma in journalism, and spent a decade working for national newspapers. She has worked as an investigative reporter, and won the Cudlipp Award for public interest journalism for her undercover work. Her most recent role was at The Times, where she was the joint Head of News. She lives in north London with her husband and two daughters.