To my editors at Head of Zeus – Madeleine O’Shea and Laura Palmer – your insights and expert knowledge on all things books have hugely benefitted Cabin Fever. I love our often insane and creepy chats about plots and timelines and baddies and odd Norwegian customs. Thank you both for being a true joy to work with. Thank you also to the whole team at Head of Zeus, working with you is always a pleasure. A big thank you is also due to Louis Greenberg, for your pitch-perfect insights into Cabin Fever. Also, you managed to make me laugh out loud repeatedly during the rather stressful final stages of edits – so thank you.

I’d like to thank my writing group – I just can’t wait for our next retreat together. Thank you to Tricia Wastvedt; as always you are such a gift in my life, both personal and professional. A very big thank you is due to Kristina Takashina, for longevity, loyalty, love and laughter. You helped me so much in creating Dr. Kristina Moss in this book. Martin Philips also helped me so much in understanding the therapeutic process and the psychotherapist’s role, thank you so much. Rhonda Guttulsrod – I don’t know how I got so lucky! You (and your family) are truly family to me (and my family), and I am so very grateful for you. Thank you, a million times over, for everything.

Thank you to Trine Bretteville, who kindly lent her name to one of the tragic protagonists in this novel. I absolutely adore you – thank you for all the years and maybe especially this past year. Our 8 A.M phone calls never fail to make me laugh and I can’t wait for our next Paris adventure. Thank you to Elisabeth Hersoug, who lent her name to another tragic protagonist in this book; I appreciate our friendship so much. A special thank you to Olivia Foster who contributed to the preservation of (some kind of) sanity with our fantastic coronawinus sessions over the past year and whose presence in my life is much appreciated. Thank you also to my lovely ladies in Wimbledon – I can’t wait to paint the town red and the air Chanel with you guys soon. Thank you to Fevziye Kaya Sørebø, for all the good times, I so wish there would be more.

To all my other friends – I am very fortunate to be surrounded by such awesome people, so thank you.

To Lisa L – thank you for holding the mirror with the steadiest of hands. I promise I’m not as creepy as the events in this book!

As with every novel, the music is hugely important to me in the writing process. For Cabin Fever, I was in excellent company with Lana del Rey, Birdy, Eminem and Ane Brun, so thank you for the music.