Thanks to: Gillian Holmes, friend, bat fan and test reader extraordinaire; Neil Bissoondath and Ann Montagnes, for encouragement when it counted; Bill and Aileen Jamieson and Jim and Margo Scott for the use of the cottage and farm; Cynthia Good and everyone at Penguin for making this the best book it could be; Shriekback, for the soundtrack; Kim Kofmel, for lunches, dinners, writing weekends and unending inspiration; and Richard Shallhorn, who watched me turn his big ideas into little ones and who married me anyway.
Thanks to Gillian Homes of the House of Pomegranates for her gorgeous cover and to Suzy McKee Charnas for the kind introduction.