Thanks to my editor, Bethany Gibson, for, as ever, her empathetic and astonishingly acute editorial eye. Thanks to Paula Sarson, copy editor extraordinaire, and everyone at Goose Lane Editions. To my agent, Samantha Haywood, whose enthusiasm and belief buoy me always. You make it all possible.
CATHERINE BUSH is the author of four previous novels, including the Canada Reads long-listed Accusation, the Trillium Award short-listed Claire’s Head, and the national bestselling The Rules of Engagement, which was also a New York Times Notable Book and a Globe & Mail Best Book of the Year. She has been a Fiction Meets Science Fellow at the HWK in Germany and has spoken internationally about addressing the climate crisis through fiction. An associate professor at the University of Guelph and Coordinator of the Guelph Creative Writing MFA, she lives in Toronto and eastern Ontario. Blaze Island is her fifth novel.
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