The Kiss (22 page)
Authors: Lucy Courtenay
Lots of people to thank for a book I had way too much fun writing.
Special thanks to Jasper Mann, handsome and dashing former General Manager for Caper & Berry at the
Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford. Carolyn and Sheila at getmadeup.com who revealed a tiny part of the amazing world of body art to me. My come-as-a-pair experts Jenny and Paul Brocklehurst: Jenny on banking and Paul on policing. Pamela Belle, from whose beautiful poem ‘The Moon in the Water’ I stole Oz’s philosophy about the importance of having dreams in your life. Thank you all, and apologies wherever I have taken liberties with information supplied.
Sorry, Sir Patrick Moore, for messing around with the full-moon calendar to fit my fiendish needs. Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, you were the perfect celebrity couple to represent the power of Aphrodite’s Kiss, and I apologize for putting words into your mouths.
Thanks also to Naomi Greenwood and the Hodder team for believing in
The Kiss
from the start. Thanks to my husband Will because he’s lovely and I couldn’t write half what I write without him. And finally, I should perhaps thank the French boy who once kissed a teenage me among moonlit Mediterranean sand dunes. It’s only polite.
For Stephanie Thwaites my agent who, for all her hard work, has never had a printed word of thanks from me. So . . . Thank you!
Text Copyright © 2015 Lucy Courtenay
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