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Lifesaving for Beginners

Lifesaving for Beginners

Titel: Lifesaving for Beginners
Autoren: Ciara Geraghty
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found within these pages but the seed, you gave me the seed to grow. Thank you.
     To Owen O’Byrne, who put my manuscript on my Kindle and who fixed my laptop when the professionals told me it was hopeless . . . Thank you so much.
    A big debt of gratitude is owed to Eileen Kavanagh who read a draft of this book and was so generous with her time and her expertise in providing invaluable feedback and insight. I will return the favour any time.
    Thanks to my sister, Niamh Geraghty, who reads the many, many drafts of my books and laughs at the bits that you’re supposed to laugh at. Even if I had other sisters, you’d still be my favourite one. And to Niamh MacLochlainn, who read the manuscript in one sitting and who is always so generous and supportive with her feedback.
    Huge thanks to the staff at Hachette Books Ireland and Hodder & Stoughton in the U.K., especially my editors, Ciara Doorley and Francesca Best. I have learned so much from your patient and careful work on my books. Thank you for helping me tell my stories.
    An enormous thank you to my agent, Ger Nichol, who is always in my corner. Thank you for believing in me, even when I don’t. Especially when I don’t.
    Writers need readers. Otherwise, you’re just alone, in a room, talking to yourself. It still surprises and delights me when someone contacts me to let me know that they’ve read a book that I’ve written. It’s even better when they say that they enjoyed it. And some of them aren’t even related to me. So a huge thank you to all the people who read my books. I really, really hope you enjoy this one.
    I am, as always, indebted to my family: my parents Breda and Don, to whom this book is dedicated. This is one small thing I can do for you in return for the many huge things you have done for me over the years. And to my children Sadhbh, Neil and Grace. They are the people who live with the person who writes the stories. They have their own stories to tell about that experience and those stories aren’t always good . . . So thank you all, for your patience and your love.
    And to my friend, Frank MacLochlainn. Thank you for your friendship, your support, your understanding and your love. I couldn’t do it without you.
    Finally, to Maeve Binchy, who died this week. I will never hear your stories, on the page or the radio or the television, again. I will miss that. I will miss you. You inspired me. You told me that I could do it too. You told all of us. Thank you so much.
     
    Ciara Geraghty, 8th August 2012

About the Author
    Ciara Geraghty lives in Dublin with three children, one husband and a dog. Lifesaving for Beginners is her fourth novel.
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