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A huge thank you to all my editors, translators and marketing teams in the UK and around the world. Your support for this series is fabulous and I’m so grateful for everything you do. Particular thanks go to Ben Willis and his team at Zaffre, and David Highfill and Julia Elliott at William Morrow for your infinite patience with me this time. We got there in the end.

Thanks to the team at Sandringham House who made researching this book a real pleasure, and to the rewilders and conservationists at Knepp and Holkham, whose work I was privileged to experience.

To the people of North Norfolk, who made me feel so welcome. I’m so glad to have discovered this special spot. I will be back.

Thank you to all my readers, and especially those of you who have contacted me via my newsletter and shared some of your own stories and gardening tips with me. Please keep them coming!

Thanks to the girls who keep me going with your friendship and inspiration: the Place, the Sisterhood, the Masterminds, and the Book Club, and especially to Caroline Lawrence and Sarah Wooley for the walks.

To Emily, Sophie, Freddie and Tom, who put up with me not always being around when my head is in a book. (Thank goodness you can cook.) And to Alex. On this book in particular, you held me up. Thank goodness for you.

SJ Bennett was born in Yorkshire and travelled the world as an army child.

She had a varied career including lobbyist and strategy consultant, before her first novel was published when she was 42. Since then her books have won the RNA Romance Novel of the Year, been optioned for TV, and have been translated into over 20 languages.

She was once asked to interview for the role of Assistant Private Secretary to the Queen and still considers it the job that got away. A curious royal watcher for many years, she lives in London where she can often be found haunting its palaces, museums, galleries and libraries.

Having set the first book at Windsor Castle, and then one at Buckingham Palace, I decided to travel to Sandringham this time, for a traditional royal family Christmas. To start with, I knew that Sandringham was a big house in East Anglia where the royal family liked to go shooting, but that was about it.