Acknowledgements
Thank you: Dan Franklin, Rachel Cugnoni, Joe Pickering, Victoria Murray-Browne, Clare Bullock, Michal Shavit, Richard Cable, Suzanne Dean, Lily Richards, Katherine Fry, Beth Coates, Anna Webber.
Bless you: Catherine Smith, Elizabeth Day, Doug Taylor, Peter Quinn.
Praise you: David Kynaston for his brilliant ongoing social history of post-war Britain, Tales of a New Jerusalem; Katharine Whitehorn for Selective Memory; Ariel Levy for her New Yorker essay ‘Thanksgiving in Mongolia’; Kenneth Tynan for Letters and Diaries; James Agate for Ego Vols I-IX; Françoise Hardy for her amazing photograph.
Love you: Rachel Cooke, for unstinting support and encouragement, and for her inspirational book Her Brilliant Career: Ten Extraordinary Women of the Fifties.
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