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Acknowledgements

Are due to my editors, Sarah Odedina, Isabel Ford and Talya Baker; my publicists, Ian Lamb and Emma Bradshaw; and all at Bloomsbury, and to my agent, Felicity Rubinstein.

Without these people,
The Liberators
would not be what it is: Anna Arco, Tom Beasley, Olivia Breese, the Chappatte family of Hawkridge Place, Lottie Edge, James Elliot, Julia Finch, Venetia Hargreaves-Allen, Con and Nicky Normanby, and their children Sibylla, John and Tom Phipps, Owen O'Rorke, Lizzie Spratt, Humphrey Thomas, Marie, Richard and Ashley Womack.

And, most importantly of all, to the god Dionysus himself, I pour libations and give humble thanks for his inspiration.