Acknowledgements

Thanks to Bluemoose Books (Kevin and Hetha Duffy, Lin Webb and particularly my editor, Leonora Rustamova, whose insight and good humour were invaluable). Thanks also to various early readers who encouraged me, including Almeda Glenn Miller, Teralee Trommeshauser, F. Paul Markin, Donna Tremblay, Stephen May, and Robin Yassin-Kassab. Finally, thanks to my wife, Charlene, for numerous read-throughs and many valuable suggestions, and to our sons Ethan and Liam for hashing stuff out on long drives down south—your cheques are in the mail.