The Farm Beneath the Water (23 page)
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Authors: Helen Peters
This story was inspired by a similar threat to the farm on which my family has lived and worked for three generations. I am grateful beyond words to the hundreds of people – family, friends, neighbours, experts and members of the community – who orchestrated and supported the campaign to save the farm from destruction.
An enormous thank you to Mum, Dad, Hazel, Mary and Mark, for so generously allowing me to misrepresent their characters and our shared history in works of fiction.
Huge thanks to my wonderful, wise and patient editor, Kirsty Stansfield, for her invaluable encouragement and guidance throughout the writing process.
Thank you to the fantastic team at Nosy Crow, and in particular to Kate Wilson, Adrian Soar and Dom Kingston. Special thanks to Nicola Theobald for the beautiful cover.
Thank you to all my fabulous friends – you know who you are – for your friendship and support, and special thanks to fellow writers Nino Cirone, Joe Friedman, Candy Gourlay, Cliff McNish and Christina Vinall, for your advice and encouragement.
Many thanks to my kind and lovely children, Freddie and Dorothea, for their enthusiasm and helpful feedback on the work-in-progress, and for being a constant source of inspiration.
And finally, thanks beyond measure to my husband, Oliver, without whose encouragement and belief I would never have started writing and whose unwavering support has allowed me to continue to write. Thank you, always, for everything.
For Oliver. H.P.
THE FARM BENEATH THE WATER
First published in the UK in 2015 by Nosy Crow Ltd
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, incidents and dialogues are products of the author’s imagination or are used fictiously. Any resemblence to actual people, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.
ISBN: 978 0 85763 262 3