When Nights Were Cold (33 page)

I shall not return.

S
USANNA
J
ONES
grew up in Yorkshire and studied drama at London University. Her work has been translated into over twenty languages and has won the CWA John Creasey Dagger, a Betty Trask Award and the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. She lives in Brighton.

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BY
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USANNA
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Acknowledgements

Thanks to Bill Hamilton at A. M. Heath, Maria Rejt, Sophie Orme and all at Mantle; to Veena, Phil and Ingrid Hudson, Sean Benz, Judy Jones and Madeleine Cary. Thanks also to my family and friends, especially Esther, Ben and Dan Jones, Ian Robertson, Selena Class and Helen Grime. I am grateful to the staff at the Royal Holloway University of London archives, the Alpine Club archives and the Royal Geographical Society Library.

I am indebted to various works of non-fiction. These include: Mrs Aubrey LeBlond,
Adventures on the Roof of the World
(Unwin, 1904); David Mazel (ed.),
Mountaineering Women: Stories by Early Climbers
(Texas A&M University Free Press, 1994); Claire Eliane Engel,
A History of Mountaineering in the Alps
(Unwin, 1948); Frank Smythe,
The Adventures of a Mountaineer
(Dent, 1940); Sir William Martin Conway,
The Alps from End to End
(Nelson, 1921); Cicely Williams,
Women on the Rope: The Feminine Share in Mountain Adventure
(Allen & Unwin, 1973); Mike C. Parsons and Mary B. Rose,
Invisible on Everest: Innovation and the Gear Makers
(Northern Liberties Press, 2003).

First published in UK 2012 by Mantle
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