The Door That Led to Where (20 page)

A huge thank you to Jacky Bateman for her untiring patience and her inspiration in my foggiest moments. She is a trusted light.

I am grateful to Charles Henty, the Secondary of London, who showed me round the Old Bailey and to Jeffrey Freeman for introducing me to James Shortall, the Senior Clerk at 29 Bedford Row. James took time out of his very busy schedule to talk to me and to assure me that someone like AJ would stand a chance being given an interview at such prestigious chambers.

Finally I want to thank a ghost. George Edinger left me his library and a love of history. He believed the past was alive in the present and the present is all that is absent from the past.

Sally Gardner is a multi-award-winning novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty-two languages. Her novel MAGGOT MOON (Hot Key Books) won both the Costa Children's Book Prize and the Carnegie Medal 2013. Sally's genre-defying novel THE DOUBLE SHADOW (Orion) received great critical acclaim and was also longlisted for the Carnegie Medal 2013. THE RED NECKLACE (shortlisted for 2007 Guardian Book Prize) and THE SILVER BLADE are set during the French Revolution, the film rights for which have been purchased by Dominic West. Sally also won the 2005 Nestlé Children's Book Prize for her debut novel I, CORIANDER. She is currently writing the popular WINGS & CO Fairy Detective Agency Series (Orion) for 7–11-year-olds – hailed as ‘Agatha Christie for kids' – and has recently released her latest Young Adult fiction novel, which is a modern gothic tale called TINDER, illustrated by David Roberts (Orion). Follow Sally at
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First published in Great Britain in 2015 by Hot Key Books

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