Storm (33 page)

I would like to thank:

My family.

Steve Geck, Kate Prosswimmer, Elizabeth Boyer, Alex Yeadon, and the team at Sourcebooks.

In the UK, Rachel Petty, Helen Bray, and the team at Macmillan Children's Books.

My agent, Louise Lamont, at LBA Books.

Dr. Matthew Avison (University of Bristol), for kindly providing excellent scientific advice. Again, I am very sorry about the made-up bits. I blame Ruby.

My consultants: Ruby T, Stan, Aidan, Kate, and Luke…and their Taunton and Totnes families.

The readers…since
H20
was published in 2014, your support and encouragement has meant everything to me. To the people who emailed and tweeted, who blogged and vlogged:

thank you so much!

I would also like to thank my lovely friends, big and small. Most especially: Hilary Hunt, Donovan Hawley, and Jackie Pridham.

The fabulous Hilary Beard.

My friends and neighbors in Hotwells, Bristol.

And:

Alice, Lucy, Benedict, Finn, Héloïse, Isadora, Nathan, and Rosie.

Vx

There are many books about clouds and about survival. The ones I have are the following:
The Cloud Book: How to Understand the Skies
by Richard Hamblyn, and
SAS Survival Guide: How to Survive in the Wild, on Land or at Sea
by John “Lofty” Wiseman.

Virginia Bergin grew up in Abingdon, Oxfordshire, and went on to study psychology, but ruined her own career when, while dabbling in fine art at Central Saint Martins, she rediscovered creative writing. Since then she has written poetry, short stories, film and TV scripts, and a play that almost got produced—but didn't. In between and alongside more jobs than you've had hot dinners, she has worked as a writer on TV, eLearning and corporate projects, and has twenty-two broadcast and non-broadcast TV credits. Most recently she has been working in online education, creating interactive courses for The Open University.

She currently lives on a council estate in Bristol and has taken to feeding the birds.

Visit her at
virginiabergin.com
.

Thank you for reading
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