The Art of Waiting (32 page)

Acknowledgements

Firstly, I would like to thank my agent, John Beaton, without whom this book would never have been published – without you, John, all the time I spent on it would have been wasted. Equally, I would like to thank everyone at Polygon – particularly Alison Rae, Neville Moir, Hugh Andrew and Jan Rutherford – for taking a chance on me, for their expertise and guidance, and for making this a much better book than it could possibly have been without them. Thanks are also due to David Robinson and designer Andrew Smith. And I would also like to thank my wife for her long hours of patience during the years in which I was writing
The Art of Waiting
, when there seemed little hope of it ever being published, when the time I spent on it should really have been ours to share.