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I’d like to thank my agent Marilia Savvides at Peters Fraser and Dunlop for her enthusiasm and hard work in getting this novel all the way from rough draft to finished product and for jumping on board so quickly and with lots of passion. I’d also like to thank the other people who support me at PFD, Laura, Kim, Alexandra, Jonathan, Zoe and Rebecca for their hard work behind the scenes negotiating contracts and looking into tax affairs that I’d run a mile from!

On the editing and publishing side my sincere gratitude goes to everyone at Simon & Schuster UK in getting this manuscript from digital to ink, especially my editor Anne Perry who is always quick with a superb suggestion to a dilemma. A job in crisis resolution awaits if she ever decides to take it. My thanks also go to Kay and her excellent copy-editing, which identified a number of things that had slipped through the net, Justine and Rhiannon for their creative wizardry and Jo for bringing the book through to publication.

I’ll have probably left someone out in this and for that I apologise. This mistake and any other mistakes I might have made in the factual aspects of the novel are my fault and mine alone so let’s hope I have hidden them well. Or got lucky.

I’m not sure how to end this so I’ll just say: Thanks again, everyone!

About the author

James Delargy was born and raised in Northern Ireland but has worked and lived in a number of countries around the world including South Africa, Australia and Scotland. He currently lives in semi-rural England.  55 is his first novel.

Copyright

First published in Great Britain by Simon & Schuster UK Ltd, 2019

A CBS COMPANY

Copyright © James Delargy 2019

The right of James Delargy to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

Simon & Schuster UK Ltd

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4711-7752-1

Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4711-7753-8

eBook ISBN: 978-1-4711-7754-5

Australian Trade Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4711-8463-5

Australian eBook ISBN: 978-1-4711-8464-2

eAudio ISBN: 978-1-4711-8317-1

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual people living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

Typeset in the UK by M Rules

Printed and bound by CPI Group (UK) Ltd, Croydon, CR0 4YY