The bad Amazon reviews seemed primarily related to the hints of incest as the children grew older. I couldn't wait to find out what happened to these kids. Even though this was not a 'thriller', it was a page-turner for me. This was a well-written story of self-sufficiency and surviving in the elements in the wilderness in the not so distant past. THE INNOCENTS Canadian Novelist Michael Crummey on the Historical Inspiration for His New Novel, The Innocents PROFILES.

Life is rough and hard, but they seem to be making it work, if barely. Later they begin to do a bit of fur trapping as well. We follow them over several years as they fish, salt the fish and sell them to a supply ship that appears twice a year, their only human contact with the outside world. Then, their infant sister and their mother die, and soon after their father dies, leaving them, about ages 12 and 10, to survive on their own. The Innocents Michael Crummey Buy Now Indiebound Publisher Doubleday Date NovemFiction Historical Literary A brother and sister in 19th century Newfoundland confront the limits of human endurance and their own capacity for loyalty and forgiveness in this tale of survival from the award-winning poet and storyteller. The family scrapes out a living fishing and subsistence farming. Richly imagined and compulsively readable, prizewinning author Michael Crummeys The Innocents is a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching. The Innocents is the coming-of-age story of Evered and Ada Best, young siblings who find themselves orphaned and alone in a remote, isolated cove in northern Newfoundland after their parents and.

Evered and Ada live with their parents on an bleak and isolated Newfoundland cove. Michael Crummey is much celebrated in his native Canada for historical novels set more appealingly than this might sound in remote parts of Newfoundland.

The Innocents by Michael Crummey