Bravemouth [antikvár]

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSOnce again I am enormously grateful to Val Hudson for her immense patience, support, sensitivity, good taste and expert guidance. Jo Roberts-Miller too deserves my gratitude for her excellent and tireless work, as does everyone at Hodder Headline who helped on this book. I am beholden to Steve Brown and Neha Bailhache for their insightfulness, and for the numerous ways in which each has supported me and our family. I also feel most grateful to Steve Martin for his encouraging critique, and to Dr Beverly Whipple for casting a professional eye over the manuscript. I would like to thank our staff through whose help I found time to write, especially Jock Edwards whose dedicated efforts were invaluable throughout the process, but also Andrew Tierney, Martine Hicks and Paul Hicks (who kindly took some of the family photos). I very much appreciate being allowed to quote and depict the people of my husband's sixtieth year, and am grateful to everyone whose name appears within these pages, especially my beloved subject, our children James,XI