![]() ![]() But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested. The novel was originally published in North America in late 2019 with its U.K. Thank you also to WF Howes for a review copy of its audiobook edition, narrated by Mary Lewis. ![]() Muddling through 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. My thanks to No Exit Press Oldcastle Books for an advance reading copy via NetGalley of ‘The Innocents’ by Michael Crummey. ![]() 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 help them survive. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. In centuries past, a brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated outport cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. 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. A riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister. The Innocents is richly imagined and compulsively readable. ![]()
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