BECAUSE OF THE WAR<br > I left Canada in 1949 and went to England because<br > of the eighteen months I lived there during the<br > war. I met my wife because of the war. She was<br > evacuated to Cornwall from London. She also had<br > a weakness for displaced Europeans who had left<br >I their country. And I am European - one genera-<br > tion removed. For almost twenty-seven years we<br > were happily married， raised a family， then she<br > became ill and died.<br > Soon after that the writing stopped. I d go out in<br > the morning to get the Times， do shopping， cook<br > something to eat. Then go for long walks. Or I<br > would sit in the front room， look out of the win-<br > dow， and listen to the wind， the clock， the gulls.<br > The evenings were the most difficult.<br > After seven months I realized I couldn t go on<br > like this. So I came back to Canada， to Toronto. A<br > city I had never lived in before. I came mid-<br > February (two months before a new book was to be<br >