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  I’ve been on many journeys with my editor, Shana Corey, but this is our first trip through time together. Thanks, Shana, for your patience and insight. You’ve made my books a greater thing on every occasion and that’s some special kind of magic.

  Many thanks also to our partner in crime (and fellow Billy Bragg fan), editor Amy Black, and my trusty, unflappable agent, Stephanie Thwaites.

  My boundless gratitude to Nicole de las Heras for creating a cover that looks like a zillion dollars and awes me every time I look at it. Nicole, I can’t thank you enough.

  Finally, I’d be remiss to write a book set in 1985 and not mention music in my acknowledgments. So enormous thanks to the bands and artists who shaped my experience of the first half of the 1980s. It wouldn’t have been a fraction as cool a time without your music in my life: ABBA, Adam Ant/Adam and the Ants, A-ha, The Alarm, Alison Moyet, Alphaville, Altered Images, Art of Noise, Asia, Bananarama, The Bangles, The Beat, Berlin, Big Country, Billy Bragg, Billy Idol, Billy Joel, Blancmange, Blondie, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, The Boomtown Rats, Bow Wow Wow, Bronski Beat, Bruce Springsteen, Bryan Adams, Bryan Ferry, The Cars, China Crisis, Chris de Burgh, Clannad, The Clash, Corey Hart, Culture Club, The Cure, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Def Leppard, Depeche Mode, Dire Straits, Double, The Dream Academy, Duran Duran, Echo & the Bunnymen, Elton John, Elvis Costello, Eurythmics, The Fixx, Fleetwood Mac, A Flock of Seagulls, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, General Public, Genesis, Go West, The Go-Go’s, Gowan, Grace Jones, Haircut 100, Heaven 17, Honeymoon Suite, Howard Jones, The Human League, The Icicle Works, Images in Vogue, INXS, Irene Cara, J. Geils Band, Jackson Browne, The Jam, Jane Siberry, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joan Jett, Joe Jackson, John Cougar, John Waite, Journey, Kajagoogoo, Kate Bush, Kim Wilde, The Kinks, Kirsty MacColl, Laura Branigan, Level 42, Lionel Richie, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, Loverboy, Luba, Madness, Madonna, Marillion, Martha and the Muffins, Men at Work, Men Without Hats, Midnight Oil, Modern English, The Motels, Naked Eyes, Nena, New Order, Nick Heyward, Nik Kershaw, Nina Hagen, Olivia Newton-John, Orchestral Manoeuvers in the Dark (OMD), The Parachute Club, Pat Benatar, Paul Hyde and the Payola$, Paul McCartney, Paul Young, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pink Floyd, Platinum Blonde, The Police, The Pretenders, Prince, The Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd., Queen, Quiet Riot, R.E.M., The Ramones, Rational Youth, Real Life, Red Rider, Rick Springfield, Romeo Void, Rough Trade, Roxy Music, Rush, Sade, Saga, Scorpions, Scritti Politti, Sheena Easton, Sheriff, Simple Minds, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Slade, The Smiths, Soft Cell, Spandau Ballet, The Specials, Split Enz, The Spoons, Stephen Duffy, The Stranglers, The Style Council, Talk Talk, Tears for Fears, Thompson Twins, ’Til Tuesday, Tina Turner, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Toto, Triumph, Twisted Sister, U2, UB40, Ultravox, Van Halen, Violent Femmes, Visage, Wah!, Wang Chung, The Waterboys, Wham!, Whitney Houston, The Who, Yazoo, and Yes.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  C. K. Kelly Martin is the critically acclaimed author of I Know It’s Over, One Lonely Degree, The Lighter Side of Life and Death, and My Beating Teenage Heart. She began writing her first novel in Dublin and currently lives in the greater Toronto area with her husband. She was sixteen years old in 1985 and continues to look back on the eighties with extreme fondness. You can visit her website and blog at ckkellymartin.com.