Daydreams of Angels

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Thank you most of all to Jennifer Lambert.

Thanks to the great team at HarperCollins Canada: Cory Beatty, Kelsey Marshall, Noelle Zitzer, Leo MacDonald, Iris Tupholme, Kaiti Vincent, Shannon Parsons, Suman Seewat, Stacey Cameron and everyone else.

Thanks to everyone at Quercus in the UK and, in particular, to the wonderful Rose Tomaszewska and Jon Riley.

Thanks to everyone at FSG in the US: Mitzi Angel, Will Wolfslau and Lottchen Shivers.

Thanks to Courtney Hodell.

Thanks to my agents and everyone at WME: Claudia Ballard, Jennifer Rudolph Walsh and Cathryn Summerhayes.

Some of these stories have previously appeared on CBC radio, This American Life, the National Post and Rookie magazine.

Research for this book included in part the following works: Julie Kavanagh’s Nureyev: The Life; Robert Gildea’s Marianne in Chains; Richard Vinen’s The Unfree French: Life under the Occupation; Susan Zuccotti’s The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews; Tom Douglas’s Canadian Spies: Tales of Espionage in Nazi-Occupied Europe During World War II; Mark Zuehlke’s Juno Beach: Canada’s D-Day Victory; and Angelo Jo Latham’s Posing a Threat: Flappers, Chorus Girls, and Other Brazen Performers of the American 1920s.

Thanks to the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec for a writing grant for this book.

Always thank you to Paul Tough.

And a special shout-out to my favourite human being: Arizona O’Neill.