Authors: Antoine Rouaud
To Barbara Bessat-Lelarge and Quentin Daniel who were the first to believe in this book.
To the entire team at Bragelonne who have shown great kindness and exemplary professionalism towards me.
To Claire Deslandes for her precious work and advice in revising the work. To Tom Clegg for his suggestions.
A very special thanks to Gillian Redfearn at Gollancz and Stéphane Marsan at Bragelonne for their confidence in me.
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