ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
I wish to thank Patrick Murphy for his support and to acknowledge the meticulous and perceptive editing of the text by Kate Kennedy.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Allan Donaldson was born in Taber, Alberta, and grew up in Woodstock, New Brunswick. He is the author of the short-story collection Paradise Sliding and the novel Maclean, which was shortlisted for the 2005 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Award. He lives in Fredericton.