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  1. Contents
  2. ‌Part One
  3. ‌One
  4. ‌Two
  5. ‌Three
  6. ‌Four
  7. ‌Five
  8. ‌Six
  9. ‌Seven
  10. ‌Eight
  11. ‌Nine
  12. ‌Ten
  13. ‌Eleven
  14. ‌Part Two
  15. ‌Twelve
  16. ‌Thirteen
  17. ‌Fourteen
  18. ‌Fifteen
  19. ‌Sixteen
  20. ‌Seventeen
  21. ‌Eighteen
  22. ‌Nineteen
  23. ‌Twenty
  24. ‌Twenty-One
  25. ‌Twenty-Two
  26. ‌Acknowledgements
  27. Note to the Reader
  28. Subscribers
  29. Current and Upcoming Books

Thank you to my agent Peter Straus, and to his colleagues at Rogers, Coleridge & White. To my editor Stefan Tobler and to Javerya Iqbal, Eleanor Kent, Nichola Smalley and Tara Tobler at And Other Stories. To my friends who read and offered advice on early drafts of the book: Keiran Goddard, Joe Thomas, Francis Bickmore, Lee Brackstone, Mark Richards, Clare Conville, Sophie Mackintosh, Catherine O’Flynn, Ed Lake, Natasha Stallard and Steven McGregor, and in particular to Alan Mahar and Anna Kelly. To Jacques Testard, Ben Eastham and Francesca Wade for publishing and editing part of an early version of the novel in the White Review in 2015. To Joe Stretch, Martin Catterall and Yvonne Dodoo-Catterall, my generous hosts in Manchester. To Stuart Hammond, for welcoming me into the palace above Greggs. To Arts Council England, for financial support throughout my writing career and during the writing of this book. To my colleagues at the Centre for New Writing, Manchester. To my family and friends from Fleetwood and the Fylde coast. And to Anna Kelly again, for much more than editorial advice.

Note to the Reader

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Dear readers,

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This book was made possible thanks to the support of:

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