The Innocents

Michael Crummey

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No Exit Press
01 November 2020

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The Innocents is richly imagined and compulsively readable. A riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between brother and sister. 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.

In centuries past, a brother and sister are orphaned in an isolated outport cove on Newfoundland's northern coastline. Their home is a stretch of rocky shore governed by the feral ocean, by a relentless pendulum of abundance and murderous scarcity. 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.

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. But as seasons pass and they wade deeper into the mystery of their own natures, even that loyalty will be tested.

By: Michael Crummey
Imprint: No Exit Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm,
ISBN: 9780857304261
ISBN 10: 0857304267
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 01 November 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for The Innocents

Crummey does a powerfully unsettling job of imagining how the onset of sexual feelings and self-consciousness would affect an isolated brother and sister -- James Walton * Times * Brilliantly written. Different. Unique. * Between The Pages Bookclub * This is a vivid reimagining of nature and a study of intimacy, involving and compassionate -- Paul Burke * NB Magazine * Beautifully written [...] It is an unusual book that will stay with me for a long time -- Maggie Macdonald * Netgalley * Beautiful, brutal and raw [...] Inspired by a story the author found in local archives, this is an incredibly haunting novel - the language powerfully pure, the story uniquely thought-provoking -- Joanne Owen * LoveReading *

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The Innocents

Michael Crummey

$17.99

Paperback

Reviews for The Innocents

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