The Blue Book (35 page)

Acknowledgements

With many thanks to Derren Brown, Julia Cloughley-Sneddon, Coops, Peter Lamont, Ian Rowland, Ros Steen and Shelby White. Thanks also to the island and people of Sark.

About the Author

A. L. Kennedy is the critically acclaimed author of
Day
, winner of the Costa Book Award, the Lannan Literary Prize for Fiction, the Austrian State Prize for Literature, the Saltire Scottish Book Prize, and was a Clare Maclean Prize finalist, and a
Globe and Mail
Top 100 Book. She has published five previous novels, including
Paradise
, and has twice been selected as one of
Granta
's Best Young British Novelists. She lives in Glasgow, Scotland, and is a part-time lecturer in creative writing at Warwick University.

About the Publisher

House of Anansi Press was founded in 1967 with a mandate to publish Canadian-authored books, a mandate that continues to this day even as the list has branched out to include internationally acclaimed thinkers and writers. The press immediately gained attention for significant titles by notable writers such as Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, George Grant, and Northrop Frye. Since then, Anansi's commitment to finding, publishing and promoting challenging, excellent writing has won it tremendous acclaim and solid staying power. Today Anansi is Canada's pre-eminent independent press, and home to nationally and internationally bestselling and acclaimed authors such as Gil Adamson, Margaret Atwood, Ken Babstock, Peter Behrens, Rawi Hage, Misha Glenny, Jim Harrison, A. L. Kennedy, Pasha Malla, Lisa Moore, A. F. Moritz, Eric Siblin, Karen Solie, and Ronald Wright. Anansi is also proud to publish the award-winning nonfiction series The CBC Massey Lectures. In 2007, 2009, 2010, and 2011 Anansi was honoured by the Canadian Booksellers Association as “Publisher of the Year.”