Falling From Grace (34 page)

Novelist and biologist Ann Eriksson combines her background in ecology with her life experiences to create works of fiction populated with rich characters and grounded in nature. She is the author of novels
In the Hands of Anubis
(2009) and
Decomposing Maggie
(2003). Ann was born in Saskatchewan and grew up in the Canadian Prairie provinces, eventually migrating to the West Coast. Ann lives with her husband, poet Gary Geddes, on Thetis Island and in Victoria. Visit
www.anneriksson.ca
.

Copyright © Ann Eriksson 2010

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical, recording, or otherwise—without the prior written consent of the publisher or a licence from The Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency (
ACCESS
Copyright). For a copyright licence, visit
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.

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Originally published by Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd. in 2011
with ISBN 978-1-897142-46-2

This electronic edition was released in 2010.

e-pub ISBN: 978-1-897142-84-4
e-pdf ISBN: 978-1-897142-83-8

Editor: Kathy Page
Cover image: © Fotosearch
Proofreader: Heather Sangster, Strong Finish
Author photo: Gary Geddes

Brindle & Glass is pleased to acknowledge the financial support for its publishing program from the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund, Canada Council for the Arts, and the Province of British Columbia through the British Columbia Arts Council and the Book Publishing Tax Credit.

This book is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are either products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events or locales or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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www.brindleandglass.com