The Good Girl (40 page)

I am very grateful to my editor Maxine Hitchcock for her impeccable editorial advice, and to the rest of the team at Penguin for their encouragement and ideas, especially Sarah Arratoon, Francesca Russell and Lydia Good. I would like to say a big thank you to Jonny Geller for his wise counsel and excellent observations and also to Kirsten Foster at Curtis Brown.

A number of people helped with research. I am very grateful to Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore at the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, Dr Bettina Hohnen, John Woods at London’s Portman Clinic, Kelly Alleyne at CEOP, and the head teachers who gave up their time to speak to me.

Thanks to Helen Bairamian, Phil Robertson, Helen Townshend and Henry Tricks for reading the first draft and for being there at the difficult moments. Big debt of gratitude to Rachel and Eve Anthony, Alfie Hardman and Michelle Glover for all their comments.

To gain insight into the world of neuroscience I read the following excellent books:
We Are Our Brains: From the Womb to Alzheimer’s
by Dick Swaab,
The Brain That
Changes Itself
by Norman Doidge and
Neuroscience: Exploring the Brain
by Mark F. Bear and Barry W. Connors.

As always, thanks to Ed and our children for simultaneously enduring and encouraging.

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First published 2015

Copyright © Fiona Neill, 2015

Cover images: girl © Mark Owen/Trevillion Images; background © Terry Bridgood/Trevillion images

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ISBN: 978-0-141-96785-1