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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS


To Ansa Khan Khattak and Caroline Bleeke. Most people are lucky to have one editor, so for this book to have two such dedicated champions feels like a wild and undeserved luxury.

To Kish Widyaratna, for seeing this book on its way with such grace and generosity.

To Sam Copeland, with thanks for infinite patience and humor.

To Alice Dewing and Katie Bowden: not only the best but also the coolest.

To Sydney Jeon, Marissa Constantinou, Nicholas Blake, Katie Haines, and everyone else who played a part in getting this book off the ground.

To Eleanor Harris, Cordelia and Ed Harper-Masters, Jess and Ash Burton, Pete Quigley and Amanda Williams, Lucy Baraona, Katie Clark, Daisy Mortimer, Sellisha Lockyer, Kerry Upham, Sophie Jagger, Hannah Leach, Emma Waring, Gabriella Shimeld-Fenn, Beans Webster and Jess O’Sullivan, Lindsay Smith, Greg Barrett, Eliza Clark and George Royle, Alison Rumfitt, Peter Armfield and Sarah Crowden, Elizabeth Macneal, Mikaella Clements and Onjuli Datta, Pete Scalpello, Alice Slater, Kirsty Logan, Heather Parry, Rosalind Jana and Marlena Valles, Nina Harvey-Brewin, and, of course, Louise Bower—for watching movies, for reading drafts, for making drinks, for sending messages, for all of that.

To Martha Perotto-Wills and Avery Curran, beloved coterie.

To Isobel Woodger and Sarvat Hasin, my forever girls.

To Tiggy, who did nothing.

To Mum, Dad, Nick, and Emily, with absolutely all of my love.

And to Rosalie—the only person I could be trapped with for over a year and still want more of everything.

This book is offered in memory of Michael Waring, a fellow shark lover and someone I wish I could have known better.