![]() Muddling though the severe round of the seasons, through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, it is their fierce loyalty to each other that motivates and sustains them. 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. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. ![]() People Magazine Book of the Week Extraordinary.- Wall Street Journal Gripping.-Emma Donoghue, author of Room Dazzling.-Smith Henderson, author of Fourth of July Creek Fantastic.-Kevin Powers, author of Yellow Birds and A Shout in the Ruins Brilliant.-Ron Rash, author of Serena From prizewinning author Michael Crummey comes a spellbinding story of survival in which a brother and sister confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness. ![]()
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