Nadia Knows Best (36 page)

Big thanks to Jeanette and Mike Groark, and Mark Andrews, for the sterling legal advice. Thanks also to Garth Harrison, barbecue supremo, for lending me his stunning home. Thanks are due too to Anne Evans, Lorraine Wilson, and Val Curtis, who deciphered my appallingly messy handwriting and worked so hard against the clock to turn my scribble into a readable, typed manuscript. (No thanks, incidentally, to the Royal Mail, who promptly lost it…)

And finally, thanks to Pearl Harris, private detective par excellence.

With over 5 million copies sold,
New
York
Times
and
USA
Today
bestselling author Jill Mansell is also one of the hottest selling authors of women's fiction in the UK. She lives with her partner and children in Bristol and writes full time. Actually, that's not true; she watches TV, eats gumdrops, admires the rugby players training in the sports field behind her house, and spends hours on the Internet marveling at how many other writers have blogs. Only when she's
completely
run out of ways to procrastinate does she write.