It Could Have Been Her(96)

Thanks so much to the brilliant Richenda Todd in the UK for her remarkable copyediting skills, and to Stephanie Evans in the US for her additional eagle eye. Sorry for changing all the chips back to crisps!

(PS: A note on typos. Every book you have ever read and will ever read contains at least one typo. It is impossible to spot them all. Consider yourself an eagle eye if you find one, and enjoy them as part of the experience of reading something written and edited by human beings .)

Finally, a huge thank-you to you all. The older I get and the longer my career goes on, the more I come to believe that readers are the best people in the world. Thank you for being unfailingly kind, enthusiastic, warm, and loving; thanks for coming out to see me at events, sometimes coming such long distances that it makes me feel guilty for not being great enough for you! Thank you for subscribing to my newsletters, for following me on social media, for buying my books, and sending me so many lovely messages. And, of course, there would be no readers without booksellers and librarians, so thank you so much to you too.

And how could I forget? Thanks to my amazing family (though I do have to hide from them in my bed sometimes to get any work done uninterrupted), and of course all my brilliant, brilliant friends.

See you all back here in 2027 for another set of acknowledgments! But until then, I really hope you enjoyed It Could Have Been Her. And sorry about the clown stuff.