Acknowledgments

With deep love and thanks to Emma Bircham, again and always.

Huge gratitude to all at Macmillan and Del Rey, especially my editors, Peter Lavery and Chris Schluep. And as ever, more thanks than I can say to Mic Cheetham.

I’m indebted to everyone who read drafts and gave me advice: my mother, Claudia Lightfoot; my sister, Jemima Miéville; Max Schaefer; Farah Mendelsohn; Mark Bould; Oliver Cheetham; Andrew Butler; Mary Sandys; Nicholas Blake; Deanna Hoak; Jonathan Strahan; Colleen Lindsay; Kathleen O’Shea; and Simon Kavanagh. This would be a much poorer book without them.