Where Old Ghosts Meet (31 page)

My thanks also go to several people who, in different ways, have given generously of their time to assist me: Dr. Allison Feder, Sheila Redmond, Dr. Noel Shuell, the late Dr. Aly O'Brien, Susan Pahl, and Loreto Hyde Doyle. Thank you to Lisa Moore, who read an early draft of the manuscript and provided insightful feedback and suggestions, and, at the time, much needed encouragement. To the members of The Writers' Guild, I owe a deep debt of gratitude for their constant support and valuable criticism of the work in progress. I especially want to thank Georgina Queller for her valuable help and her friendship and for giving me that final nudge to the finish line.

I am deeply grateful to Annamarie Beckel, my editor, for her insight and for her understanding of where I wanted to go with this novel and for skilfully and patiently showing me the way. To all the staff at Breakwater, thank you. What a great crew to work with!

Lastly I must thank my family for their loving support, and especially my husband, Tony, for always being there.

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Born in County Sligo, Ireland, Kate Evans now lives with her husband Tony in St. John's, Newfoundland. She is a teacher of English as a Second Language and has taught in Dublin, London, Montreal, and Bangkok. She started her writing career doing feature articles for the newspaper, drawing for her material on her passion for travel and the theatre. She has also written several radio scripts and has published a short story in
Ireland of the Welcomes
.
Where Old
Ghosts Meet
is her first novel.