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It would require an entirely new novel to recount the journey that resulted in the writing and publication of All Is Not Forgotten. While the actual writing time was about ten weeks, it also took me seventeen years, four other novels, two screenplays, one legal career, three children and enough angst to fill Dr. Forrester’s calendar for many years. Writing can be hard. Knowing what to write is even harder. I feel blessed, humbled and grateful that I found my way to telling this story.

To that end, I begin my acknowledgments with my agent, Wendy Sherman, for knowing what I should write, and for her patience while I got my head around a new genre. Her abilities to read a writer and know the market are truly spectacular. I owe many thanks as well to my editor and publisher in the U.S., Jennifer Enderlin, for her unwavering enthusiasm, and to Lisa Senz, Dori Weintraub and the entire team at St. Martin’s Press, and in the U.K. to the team at HQ including Lisa Milton, Sally Williamson and Alison Lindsay for their extraordinary efforts to publish this book with precision, but also with genuine passion for the project. On the west coast, my gratitude goes out to my film rights agent, Michelle Weiner at CAA, for knowing we would be in such good hands with Reese Witherspoon and Bruna Papandrea at Pacific Standard Films, and Warner Brothers. And for placing the book with some of the finest publishers quite literally around the globe, thank you to foreign rights agent Jenny Meyer. It has been such a joy for me to work with so many talented professionals.

While I accept full credit for all liberties taken in my description of memory science and psychology, I am indebted to Dr. Felicia Rozek, PhD, for providing brilliant insight into the psychological dynamics of the characters and events, and to Dr. Efrat Ginot, PhD, and author of The Neuropsychology of the Unconscious: Integrating Brain and Mind in Psychotherapy, for educating me on the science behind memory loss, recovery and reconsolidation.

On a personal note, I owe many, many thanks to: my fellow writers who courageously stare down blank pages every day and still managed to read my work, assuage my doubts, and lend a hand – Jane Green, Beatriz Williams, Jamie Beck, John Lavitt and Mari Passananti; my trusted readers and ‘plot testers’ who balanced honesty with encouragement – Valerie Rosenberg, Joan Gray, Diane Powis and Cynthia Badan; my beloved friends who support me unconditionally; my patient partner Hugh Hall; and my courageous, complicated and beautiful family who believe in hard work and big dreams.