The Sudden Departure of the Frasers (41 page)

A heartfelt thank you to Sheila Crowley and Maxine Hitchcock for being such indefatigable champions of this book. Thank you also to Becky Ritchie, Katie McGowan, Sophie Harris and Alice Lutyens at Curtis Brown and to Lydia Good, Nick Lowndes and the rest of the team at Michael Joseph. Thank you to Caroline Pretty for her excellent copy-edit.

Thank you to my family and friends for moral support, sometimes the only thing that keeps a writer writing. Elissa and Karen, I truly appreciate your sympathetic ear.

And not forgetting Mats ’n’ Jo!

Thank you to my sister Jane for helping me with the background on one of Amber’s scenes; to Julia Harris-Voss for her suggestion about the letter; and to Richard Clifton for advice about Joe’s legal career.

I am indebted to two patient and generous police officers, Nicola Hurdley and Neal McCarry, who answered my questions and read and corrected material out of the goodness of their hearts. I am really, really grateful. Any mistakes are of course mine and not theirs.

Finally,
The Art of Being A Well Dressed Wife
is a V&A publication by Anne Fogarty, passed my way during the writing of this book by Lydia Good. It is perfect ‘Amberbilia’.

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First published 2015

Copyright © Louise Candlish, 2015

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ISBN: 978-1-405-91986-9