ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
First and foremost, I have to thank the team who has been by my side for every step of this: Amanda Bergeron, Dache’ Rogers, Danielle Keir, Jess Mangicaro, Sareer Khader, and Taylor Haggerty. This, like my last three books, truly wouldn’t have been possible without all of you, and every day I’m grateful for you. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
A huge thank-you also to Alison Cnockaert, Anthony Ramondo, and Sanny Chiu for the gorgeous cover art and interior design, as well as to my incredible copy editor and proofreader, Angelina Krahn and Jamie Thaman, respectively.
Unending thanks also to Cindy Hwang, Christine Ball, Christine Legon, Claire Zion, Craig Burke, Ivan Held, Jeanne-Marie Hudson, Lindsey Tulloch, and the whole team at Berkley.
I also need to thank my team across the pond, Viking, especially Vikki, Ellie, Lydia, Georgia, Rosie, and my fantastic cover designer, Holly Ovenden.
So much gratitude also to Holly Root, Jasmine Brown, Stacy Jenson, and the rest of Root Literary, as well as to my foreign rights agent, Heather Baror-Shapiro, and her team at Baror International.
Publishing can be a very transient industry, with people always coming and going, but one person who has been with me from the very beginning is my incomparable film agent and champion, Mary Pender, along with her team at UTA. So grateful to have you by my side through all of this.
So many author friends have been here for me through this (and other) books, but I especially have to thank the people I can always count on to speed-read for me and to talk through sticky plot points and sort out my characters’ emotional logic. Brittany Cavallaro, Isabel Iba?ez, Jeff Zentner, and Parker Peevyhouse: I’ll never be able to thank you enough for the time, energy, kindness, and love you give to me as both friends and colleagues. As Jeff likes to say, “You’re my band.”
Here is where it gets tricky, because over the years, so many people have supported me and my books in so many ways, so let me just say, to every journalist, podcaster, reviewer, book club, web show, magazine, radio show, bookseller, librarian, perfumery, and writer friend who has ever engaged with one of my books: thank you. I love my job so much and am endlessly grateful to everyone who’s played a part in allowing me to continue doing this.
And from a more technical standpoint, I’m only able to write books about friendship, family, and love because of the people I’m incredibly lucky to call my friends, family, and lover. Thank you for loving me and for being you.
Last but certainly not least, thank you to my readers. For everything. All of it. I’m so grateful our paths have crossed in this truly bizarre and wonderful way.
Thank you.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Emily Henry is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation, and Beach Read. She studied creative writing at Hope College, and now spends most of her time in Cincinnati, Ohio, and the part of Kentucky just beneath it. Find her on Instagram @emilyhenrywrites.