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  1. TITLE PAGE
  2. COPYRIGHT PAGE
  3. CONTENTS
  4. PROLOGUE
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  63. BOOK CLUB QUESTIONS
  64. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  65. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I wanted to set the book near the sea and it didn’t take me long to settle on Whitley Bay. Whilst some of the locations are accurate, I have taken liberties with others for the purposes of the story. I did find the perfect house to be ‘number 5’ when I visited, though, so that is a real place. However, unlike Clio I didn’t knock on the door and ask to look round. Who knows? Maybe I should have done. Hartsford and the barony, however, are entirely my creations.

There are a few people that I would like to thank. Firstly, Paddi Cunningham, who helped make sure my version of the life of a musician’s wife wasn’t too wide of the mark. Paddi was like a second mum to my brother and me when we were growing up, and we seemed to spend almost as much time at her house playing with her four children as we did at home. Her husband, Peter, was a violinist with the Hallé Orchestra and some of my memories of him have been adapted in the creation of Charles, although I have to say that as far as I know Peter was only married to Paddi!

Thanks must also go to Susan Saville, my friend and a wonderful midwife who helped me make sure my description of a forceps birth rang true, as luckily I had no personal experience of one.

Thanks also to Alex Warren, who listened to me ramble on one Christmas evening as I fumbled my way from initial concept to reasonable story and made helpful suggestions as I talked, steering me away from my less successful ideas.

Of course, it’s not just my hard work that makes a novel what it is, and I need to thank everyone at my publishers Lake Union, and particularly my wonderful editors Victoria Pepe and Celine Kelly for keeping me on track and not letting me go off on tangents.

Finally, to my children, who are my first readers and biggest fans, and my wonderful husband John, who held the fort when I disappeared off to first research and then edit the book. Without their faith in me I’m not sure I would now be putting the finishing touches to my third novel.

If you have enjoyed Where the Story Starts then please leave me a review on Amazon or Goodreads, and if you’d like to get in touch then go to my website, imogenclark.com, where you can find links to all my social media pages.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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