Love and Fallout (45 page)

Thank you to Sarah Ridgard, Natasha Soobramanien, Helen Smith, Sandra Deeble, Roger Mills and his class at the Mary Ward Centre. For financial assistance, thank you to The Arts Council. For encouragement at just the right time, thank you to Isobel Maddison, Rowan Pelling and the Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize.

Special thanks to my agent Zoe Waldie, and to my editor Penny Taylor and the team at Seren. Most of all, for limitless patience and good humour, thank you to Stephen Keyworth.

‘Things' by Fleur Adcock,
Poems 1960-2000
(Bloodaxe Books, 2000) reproduced by kind permission of Bloodaxe Books.

Extract from ‘I Wanna be Free' by Toyah Willcox, reproduced with kind permission of Toyah Willcox and Sweet ‘n' Sour Songs.

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© Kathryn Simmonds 2014

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