Firstly, thank you to my family, my brothers Anthony and David, for their constant support, encouragement, and laughs. Thank you to my mother, Anne. It’s a rare parent who phones up their unpublished son to tell him that he must, on no account, let his job distract him from his writing. Growing up, our house was always full of books, and you taught me there were things more important than making money and that they often came bound.
