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  — Acknowledgements —

  Sincere thanks to everyone at Flanker Press, including Garry Cranford for having faith in this novel, Jerry Cranford for his editing and production work, and Margo Cranford also for her valuable input. Thanks to publicist Laura Cameron and to Graham Blair for his swift and imaginative interpretation of story into cover image. Thanks, as always, to my ever supportive family, my wife, Maura Hanrahan, and livewire daughter, Jemma Butler.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Paul Butler is the author of several critically acclaimed novels including Titanic Ashes, Cupids, Hero, 1892, NaGeira, Easton’s Gold, Easton, and Stoker’s Shadow. His work has appeared on the judges’ lists for Canada Reads, the Relit Longlist for three consecutive years, and he was a winner in the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Arts and Letters Awards four times between 2003 and 2008 at which time he retired from the competition to be literary representative, and then chair, of the Arts and Letters Committee. A graduate of Norman Jewison’s Canadian Film Centre, Butler has written for the Globe and Mail, the Beaver, Books in Canada, Atlantic Books Today, and Canadian Geographic, and has also contributed to CBC Radio, local and national. He presently lives in Corner Brook, Newfoundland, where he works as an editor, runs online writing workshops, and holds an annual writing contest. His website is www.paulbutlernovelist.wordpress.com.

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