The Long Fall (38 page)

Acknowledgements

Thanks to:

Brian Kellett for information on A&E procedures; Jonathan Ford for brilliant answers to my questions about hedge fund management; Eva Nella and Gabriella Triantafyllis for Greek translations and advice on Athens landmarks; Eri Voulgaraki and everyone at the wonderful Pyrgos Villas, Agios Kirikos, Ikaria, where I stayed on my research trip; Owen and Eva (again) for finding the island for me in the first place; Marya Hornbacher, whose honest memoir
Wasted
helped me understand anorexia; Harvard Student Agencies, whose
Let’s Go Europe 1980
was invaluable both then and now; my agent, Simon Trewin at WME, who talks great plot; Ali Hope, my editor at Headline, whose constant encouragement and incisive comments really kicked me into shape – and Emily Kitchin, who I know had a hand in it all as well; my first readers: Tim and Nel, who put up with my hovering and hand-wringing, and finally Joey, who sometimes has to fend for himself while his mum is wrangling in the writing shed.

Anything I have got wrong is my own fault. And, as well as taking a few liberties with the island’s geography, I also made up the sculpture in the airport in Ikaria.