Acknowledgements and thanks

Acknowledgements and thanks Biggest thank you goes to the NHS and to everyone who works in it.

We’re lucky to have them, and we all know it now, and anyone who beleaguers or messes with them does us all an immense damage.

A number of textual and online resources helped in the writing of this book, especially texts by David L

MacDougall

and Marcia Evans.

Thank you, Simon.

Thank you, Anna.

Thank you, Lesley B.

Thank you, Lesley L, Sarah C, Ellie,

Hannah and Hermione

and everyone at Hamish Hamilton and Penguin.

Thank you, Andrew,

and thank you, Tracy,

and everyone at Wylie’s.

Thank you, Xandra, ever just the best.

Thank you, Mary.

Thank you, Sarah.

Document Outline

• Cover
• By the same author
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Epigraph
• You choose
  • ’Ello ’ello ’ello…
  • Shifting Sand…
  • I threw the covers off…
  • knock knock…
  • All the years later…
  • Death in reverse…
  • The day after that phonecall…
• Curlew
  • Goodbye v hello…
  • Story v lies…
  • Imagination v reality…
  • Surface v depth…
  • Real v fake…
  • Tragedy v farce…
  • Alive v dead…
• Curfew
  • Hello hallo hullo…
  • There were three at the door at curfew…
  • When the girl knocks on a door…
  • The wolf’s at the door…
  • Back in the 1930s in Ireland…
  • It’s my father…
  • The story goes…
• Acknowledgements and thanks