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and asylum was provided by Dr. Mina Fazel, Bob Hughes, and Teresa Hayter—original interviews with them can be found on my website.

The novel’s hits are down to the kind people who helped me; the misses are all mine.

acknowledgments

THANKS TO ANDY PATERSON and Olivia Paterson for excellent notes on my early draft. Thanks to Sharon Maguire and Anand Tucker for their warmth and support.

Thanks also to Bob Hughes, Teresa Hayter, and Christine Bacon for their hospitality, their encouragement, and for reading my manuscript and offering suggestions.

I owe a great deal to Suzie Dooré, Jennifer Joel, Maya Mavjee, Marysue Rucci, and Peter Straus, whose several patient readings and insightful editorial notes on my drafts have been invaluable. Thank you.

about the author

CHRIS CLEAVE IS A novelist and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London.

His bestselling novel, Incendiary, was published in twenty countries, won the 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was short-listed for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction Award, and won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007.

Inspired by his early childhood in West Africa and by an accidental visit to a British concentration camp, Little Bee is his second novel.

He lives in London with his French wife and two mischievous Anglo-French children.

He keeps his website at www.chriscleave.com.

1.Home Office UK Border Agency; see http://www.bia.homeoffice.gov.uk/managingborders/immigrationremovalcentres/.

2.US Energy Information Administration, “Top World Oil Net Exporters 2006.”

3.UK Office for National Statistics, “Applications received for asylum in the United Kingdom, excluding dependants, by nationality, 1994 to 2002.”

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