This book is dedicated to all the wonderful friends I've been honoured to meet along the way, I have been privileged to have in my life.

The power of true friendship, it can raise you up when you are at your lowest depths, laugh with you until your face hurts and cry with you when sadness washes over your world.

Friends are the family you choose.

To my friends old and new, I say thank you.

Friends will make you laugh until you nearly pee yourself when it's been a really long day or you like to torment with scary movies - insidious (Darren and Kevin) or steal your doll clothes and hold them for ransom in her garden shed for not including her in a game of dollies, then forgives you ten minutes later (I never got those back Charlene) or drinks gallons of coffee with you and puts the worlds to rights (Paula always seeing the good in everyone, Nadia as equally naughty as me, Alex and Karly our sensitive souls). Good friends read over your latest chapter and gives you advice night or day (thank you for your advice). Some lovely friends you might not see as much as you'd like but always keeps in touch via letters, texts or cards that always makes you smile (thank you Lydia).

Some times a friend is also your sister, who believes in you and is your greatest champion, even when you don't have much faith in yourself (Annie ❤️)

To all the wonderful people who are and have been in my life, I say; How sad, lonely, boring, scary and dull life would have been without you.