How he maintains his grasp on the reader when most of the time he is describing the seasonal struggles of only two characters in one location, is remarkable. The stark beauty of Crummey's writing somewhat stunned me and so, despite finishing this title several weeks ago, I have been reluctant to pen my review in fear that I may dull some of its magic. Set in the 18th century, they are completely isolated visited only once a year by a goods vessel and with nothing other than the graves of their baby sister and an unnamed stranger, their world begins and ends with the horizon. Orphaned on the coast of Newfoundland, Ada (9) and Evered (11) set their faces to the wind and battle together through seasons and years to carve an existence for themselves as the elements rally against them. But each in their own way was beginning to doubt their pairing was requisite to what they might want from life." "They had all their lives been the one thing the other looked to first and last, the one article needed to feel complete whatever else was taken from them or mislaid in the dark.
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