[Random Passage 01] • Random Passage

[Random Passage 01] • Random Passage
Authors
Morgan, Bernice
Publisher
Breakwater Books
Tags
fiction , historical , fiction , family saga , frontier and pioneer life , newfoundland , family saga , historical , fiction
ISBN
9781550810431
Date
1992-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.47 MB
Lang
en
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Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned Andrews, whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man, or a murderer; and of Lavinia - who wrote down the truth and lies about them all. Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller.