A Room Swept White (50 page)

Massive thanks to my inspirational agent Peter Straus, to the wonderful Jenny Hewson, and to my superb publishers Hodder & Stoughton, especially Carolyn Mays, Karen Geary and Francesca Best.

I wouldn’t have been able to write this novel if I hadn’t read three books:
Unexpected Death in Childhood
edited by Peter Sidebotham and Peter Fleming,
Cherished
by Angela Cannings and Megan Lloyd Davies, and
Stolen Innocence: the Sally Clark Story
by John Batt. The experiences of women such as Sally Clark, Angela Cannings and Trupti Patel were part of the inspiration for
A Room Swept White
, though none of the characters or cases in my novel are based on real people or cases.