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Thanks again to Clare Parker, Liz Smith and Marie Michels, and all the teams on each side of the Atlantic for your awesome skills in helping me get my stories in front of people. On a wider scale, thanks to Tom Weldon and Brian Tart, and in Germany to Anoukh Ferg.

Huge thanks to Catherine Bedford of Harbottle & Lewis, who has been invaluable in explaining the divorcing behavior of the superrich (all stories discreet and anonymized, of course). I still think—with horror—about some of the things you told me. Any deviations from normal legal practice have been for the somewhat intricate plot requirements of the story, and any mistakes are entirely my own.

More personally during these strange few years, thank you yet again to Jackie Tearne for administrative help and friendship, Sarah Phelps for storyboarding over yard coffees, Emily White for backup, Cathy Runciman, Alice Ross, my Litmix pals Maddy Wickham, Jenny Colgan and Lisa Jewell, Glenys Plummer, Lydia Thomson for keeping me afloat, Lee Child and Ol Parker for invaluable advice when I needed it most, Becky McGrath and, last but not least, John Hopkins for cheerleading me through the tougher parts of writing this and so much more.

Endless gratitude to my family—Jim Moyes, Brian Sanders and most of all Saskia, Harry and Lu for always being so understanding about the weirder parts of this job.

I love you all very much.





About the Author



Jojo Moyes is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars, Still Me, Paris for One and Other Stories, After You, One Plus One, The Girl You Left Behind, Me Before You, The Last Letter from Your Lover, The Horse Dancer, Night Music, Silver Bay, The Ship of Brides, and The Peacock Emporium. Also a screenwriter, Jojo lives in London, England.