by Jill Frayne
When Jack goes I stay on the porch, the silence slowly coming in. The trees are at their peak. Even the air is stained yellow. A few leaves start to drift down. I expect an early fall.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
IN GETTING GOING on this book I am grateful to Jan Walter for early encouragement and for the suggestion that I bring a person into the description of landscape.
Love and thanks to Marni Jackson, who has egged so many of us on, a wonderful writer and friend.
Thanks near the end of the writing to Anne McKenzie for lavish feedback and good suggestions, every one of which I took.
I’m very lucky to have landed at Random House. All my thanks to Anne Collins and Susan Roxborough and every person in the place for their kindness and help at every turn and for making this a so much better book.
I am especially grateful to Leon and to Bree, my most important readers, for their generosity in letting me tell my version.
My mother and father taught all four of us to love words and to find comfort in writing. Their influence is the slow-acting wave, the one that started long ago and has been gathering all my life. They still set the standard in every way I can think of.
VINTAGE CANADA EDITION, 2003
Copyright © 2002 Jill Frayne
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Published in Canada by Vintage Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto. Originally published in hardcover in Canada by Random House Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto, in 2002. Distributed by Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
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National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Frayne, Jill
Starting out in the afternoon : a mid-life journey into wild land / Jill Frayne.
eISBN: 978-0-307-36912-3
1. Frayne, Jill—Journeys—Canada. 2. Middle age—Psychological aspects. 3. Canada—Description and travel. I. Title.
FC27.F726A3 2003 917.104′648 C2002-903411-6
CT310.F65A3 2002
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