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  ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

  I am indebted to Sarah Chalfant and Alba Ziegler-Bailey at the Wiley Agency, Alexandra Pringle, Allegra Le Fanu, Sara Helen Binney and Ros Ellis at Bloomsbury. To friends and first readers Will Goodlad, Edmund Gordon and Joe Stretch. To Karen Kennedy, Gwyneth Stringer, Sos Eltis and Keely Fisher, and to Andrew Motion, Robert Hampson, Jerome de Groot and Kate Williams who all, in their own way, helped shape this book. To Katherine Fry and her fine-toothed comb. To the Manchester Writing School and MMU, in particular Carol Ann Duffy, James Draper, Jess Edwards, Berthold Schoene, Sharon Handley and Malcolm Press. To Oli Wilson for finding a path across the moors, and to Christine and Martin Love, for the loan of their house with its view of the mountains. Finally, most of all, to Hannah, Gabriel and Felix for making life as rich as any fiction.

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  ADAM O’RIORDAN is the author of two collections of poems In the Flesh and A Herring Famine and the short story collection The Burning Ground. He grew up in Manchester and later read English at Oxford, winning scholarships to do a Masters and PhD with Professor Andrew Motion at the University of London. After working in publishing for several years, he was appointed Poet-in-Residence at the Wordsworth Trust, the Centre for British Romanticism. His work has been awarded an Eric Gregory Award and a Somerset Maugham Award, shortlisted for the Ledbury Prize and longlisted for the Edge Hill Prize. Until 2019 he was Academic Director of Manchester Writing School and Programme Leader for the Creative Writing MA/MFA.

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