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  Acknowledgments

  I'D LIKE TO THANK my friend, Germaine Vooghden, and also Eric and Lieve Landuyt for help with the Belgium details. With thanks for reading to Susan Martin, Mirian and Jason Lamberth, Marie Doig, Fiona Buries, Sophie O'Connor, Babar Javed, Claire Potter, Cliodhna Purcell, Catherine and Paul Lyons, Carol and Eric Houseknecht and Rob Dunbar. For keeping the animals at bay—thanks to Sandra Walker, Nicole Vilhem, Brigitte Dutouquet and Raymond Guisano. For encouragement of a less worldy kind, thanks to Rev. Dan Meeter at Brooklyn Old First. With my thanks to the fantastic team at Simon & Schuster, to Rochelle and Nigel. I am seriously indebted to Ben Ball, my editor. Thanks go to Melanie Jackson, Gill Coleridge and her team as well as to Rebecca Saletan and the team at Harcourt who have made this happen in the U.S.A.

  This book is for Bette Waller and Iris Soan, for Jim, Denise and for my parents. It is also for John. I'm grateful to you, you see...

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