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The innocents : a novel / Michael Crummey.
The Innocents begins sometime in the early 1800s with Ada and Evered, a young sister and brother left alone together in their home on an isolated cove on Newfoundland’s north coast when their parents die from an illness.
"A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. Still children with only the barest notion of the outside world, they have nothing but the family's boat and the little knowledge passed on haphazardly by their mother and father to keep them. As they fight for their own survival through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested."-- Provided by the publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385685412
- Physical Description: 285 pages ; 22 cm
- Publisher: Toronto : Doubleday Canada, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
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| Subject: | Orphans > Fiction. Brothers and sisters > Fiction. Survival > Fiction. Loyalty > Fiction. Social isolation > Fiction. Newfoundland and Labrador > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Historical fiction. Bildungsromans. |
| Topic Heading: | Canada Reads 2024 longlist |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC CRU (Text) | 35130000054522 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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