In 1910, the St. Croix family rescue and raise a baby from an ice pan off Newfoundland's coast. Sea and ice are pivotal to the story, as are the child's magic qualities. Travelling between both shores of the Atlantic back and forth in time, her heritage is eventually revealed. It is beautifully written and, to quote Carol Shields, "... has wonderful moments of clarity and transcendence, but never loses sight of what an ordinary life is".
(Polly Sams Plant - bwl 15 October 2002 ) |
