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.
A brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated cove on Newfoundland's
northern coastline. 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
alive. Still, they muddle through the severe round of the seasons,
through years of meagre catches and storms and ravaging illness, their
fierce loyalty to each other 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.
Richly imagined and compulsively readable, prizewinning author Michael
Crummey's The Innocents is a riveting story of hardship and survival,
and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister.
By turns electrifying and heartbreaking, it is a testament to the bounty
and barbarity of the world, to the wonders and strangeness of our
individual selves.
