Thank you to my friend and literary agent Abigail Bergstrom for reading and reviewing countless drafts before we sent it out. (And for the wine and chats. A very important part of the process.)

Thank you to Kim, Justin and Lynsey at Diving Bell for your support, friendship and the enthusiasm you have for all of my creative projects.

Thank you to all the women I spoke to in confidence when researching the themes in the book. You helped me build Olive from the inside out – you are all amazing, it’s no wonder I fell in love with her.

To Elizabeth Gilbert, Marian Keyes, Louise O’Neill and all the fellow authors who read early proofs of Olive and provided me with such generous support during your own busy book schedules. I really appreciate it.

Thank you to my past self for sitting down and writing the damn thing. I’ve tried so many times and failed. This one stuck.

To my amazing friends, family and Paul for making my personal life so supported and full of love. Thank you for always putting up with my overactive imagination.

About the Author

Emma Gannon is a Sunday Times bestselling author, speaker, columnist and the host of the multi-million downloaded podcast ‘Ctrl Alt Delete’. Emma’s bestselling business book, The Multi-Hyphen Method, showcases her belief that there’s power in having many strings to your bow. That said, she is first and foremost a writer. She has been published everywhere from the Guardian to Glamour and is a former columnist for The Times and Courier.

Inspired by articles revealing the rise of millennial women feeling overwhelmed at the prospect of having kids, or deciding not to have them at all, Emma began to explore the topic herself. She imagined a group of friends who had gone through the same milestones all their lives – only to be faced with vastly different expectations around motherhood. And so her debut novel, Olive, came to life.

www.emmagannon.co.uk

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