The Eliot Girls (32 page)

 

 

 

Acknowledgments

MY DEEP GRATITUDE TO
my parents,
Jill Bridge and Ed Bridge, who've been more supportive, both as readers and parents, than any grown child could reasonably expect. Thank you to Chris Labonté at Douglas & McIntyre for his wisdom and his belief in me. Thank you to Barbara Berson, whose talent and dedication as an editor pushed me further and kept me going. Thank you to my agent Martha Magor Webb for her invaluable support. Thank you to Pam Robertson for meticulous copy editing.

Thank you to the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for providing important financial assistance during the period I was writing this book. And thank you to the team at Harbour Publishing for giving Douglas & McIntyre a second chance at life.

Most of all, thank you to my husband, Peter Wambera, whom I will spend a lifetime trying to deserve.

 

 

 

 

 

KRISTA BRIDGE HAS PUBLISHED
fiction in numerous magazines and anthologies, including
Toronto Life
,
Best Canadian Stories
, and
The Journey Prize Stories
, and she has been a finalist for both the Writer's Trust of Canada/McClelland and Stewart Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award. Her first book, a collection of stories called
The Virgin Spy
, was shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award and the Relit Award. She lives in Toronto with her husband and two sons.