Many thanks to Carmelita McGrath, Kenneth J. Harvey, Jennifer Lokash, and Danine Farquharson for their close reading and invaluable advice.
A host of friends and colleagues offered counsel and encouragement, including Edward Riche, Anne Hart, Ramona Dearing, Michael Crummey, Scott Farquharson, and Mike Murray.
The generous editorial guidance of Patrick Murphy and Kate Kennedy made the final drafts a pleasure to work on.
Thanks to the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador, the Newfoundland and Labrador Arts Council, and the Literary Arts Foundation of Newfoundland and Labrador, whose support made this book possible.
The excerpt from Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear, copyright © 2003 by Jacqueline Winspear, is reprinted by permission of Soho Press, Inc. All rights reserved.
“Harbour Le Cou” is a folk song of the “Newfoundland ballad/flirting sailor” genre, generally attributed to Jack Dodd of Torbay.