The Wilding (30 page)
Thanks are due to my agent Ann
ette Green for her insightful advice, to the Rabses for their never-failing generosity and to all at Faber, especially Sarah Savitt for her energy and enthusiasm and Michael Downes for his patient attention to detail.
Maria McCann’s first nov
el,
As Meat Loves Salt
, was published in 2000 to huge acclaim. Her fiction has also been published in various anthologies. Since 1986 Maria has been living and working in Somerset, apart from one year spent teaching in France. She combines teaching and writing with other interests such as voluntary communities and the allotments movement.
AS MEAT LOVES S
ALT
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