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Professor Julian Goodare, thank you for enlightening email exchanges that really sank deep into my brain and made pieces come together.
Professor Marion Gibson, thank you for chatting by Twitter and email and for your marvellous research.
Graham Bartlett, thank you for assisting with my queries into police work and answering last-minute calls for help.
Professor Niamh NicDaeid, thank you for assisting with my queries into forensics.
Krissie Stiles, thank you for assisting with my queries into burn injuries.
James Paterson, thank you for suggesting ‘Triskele’.
Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, thank you for speaking with me in Orkney and for a wonderful impromptu history tour.
Thank you, Ali Macleod, for insights into sumptuary laws and other early modern matters.
Thanks to the archivists and librarians at Orkney Central Library and Archive, and huge thanks to Fran at St Magnus Cathedral, Orkney.
I can’t thank the booksellers, book bloggers/champion, and readers of my work enough. I had a particularly hard year with my anxiety, but I was often reminded that I have a community of book lovers behind me, who supported me and cheered me on. It made a huge difference, so thank you. A special shout-out to @hollyreadit, @phillybookfairy, Dan Bassett, @thejerseyreader, @diveintoagoodbook, @the_constant_reader, @kayliesbookshelf, @xrubyreadsx, @cherylpois, @jessheartsbooks, @fictiouskayla, @betwixt.the.pages.
My Instagram community, beloved online collective who cheered me on – thank you.
Agnus MacRae, whose beautiful music inspired me while I wrote – thank you.
Thanks to the authors and editors of the following publications: John Warrack, Domestic Life in Scotland, 1488–1688 (London: Methuen, 1920); Peter D. Anderson, Black Patie: The Life and Times of Patrick Stewart Earl of Orkney, Lord of Shetland (Edinburgh: John Donald, 1992); John Gunn, Orkney: The Magnetic North (London: Thomas Nelson, 1946); Robin Noble, Sagas of Salt and Stone: Orkney Unwrapped (Glasgow: Saraband, 2018); Sir Walter Scott, Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft Addressed to JG Lockhart (London: John Murray, 1830); Dr Ragnhild Ljosland, ed. ‘Special Edition: The Victims of the Orkney Witch Trials,’ New Orkney Antiquarian Journal: 9, 2020; Brian P. Levack, Witch-Hunting in Scotland: Law, Politics and Religion (New York: Routledge, 2008); Orkney Presbytery Book 1639–1646 (Orkney Archive OCR/4/1), Sigurd Towrie’s website, Orkneyjar (http://www.orkneyjar.com), Maria Hayward, ‘“Outlandish superfluities”: luxury and clothing in Scottish and English sumptuary law from the fourteenth to the seventeenth century’, in Riello and Rublack (eds), Right to Dress Sumptuary Laws in a Global Perspective, c.1200–1800 (Cambridge UP, 2019), 96–120. All errors are mine.
Heartfelt and big love to my husband, Jared, and our children, Melody, Phoenix Summer, and Willow. As always, you have all been so supportive and encouraging, and I could not (and would not) do any of this without you.
Finally, to you, reading this. Thank you.
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About the Author
C.J. Cooke is an internationally bestselling Edgar- and ITW-nominated gothic novelist. She is the author of The Lighthouse Witches, which is currently being developed for screen by The Picture Company for StudioCanal. Her books have been critically acclaimed for their atmospheric use of place and historical research, and have been published in 23 languages. Born in Belfast, C.J. has a PhD in Literature and teaches Creative Writing at the University of Glasgow, where she also researches creative writing interventions for mental health. She lives by a river with her husband, four children, and a cocker spaniel.
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