Girl A(105)

Thank you to my wonderful friends and family. Thanks to Lesley and Kate Gleave, and to the Trinick family. Thanks to Anna Bond, Marina Wood, and Jen Lear, for all of the time spent talking books. Thanks to Will Parker, Anna Pickard, Elizabeth and Paul Edwards, James Kemp, Tom Pascoe, Sarah Rodin, Naomi Deakin, Sophie and Jim Roberts, and Rachel Edmunds, for sharing the earliest excitement.

Thanks to Gigi Woolstencroft, who believed in this book long before I did.

Thanks, especially, to Paul Smith, Rachel Kerr, Matthew Williamson, and Ruth Steer, for so many years of laughter and love.

Thank you to my parents, Ruth and Richard Dean, who filled the house with stories, and who have always, always been there for me.

Finally, thanks and love to Richard Trinick, my greatest supporter and toughest adversary, who never did stop believing.