![]() ![]() The children are left to fend for themselves, Evered, “not yet twelve,” and Ada, two years younger.Ĭopyright ©2023 Dow Jones & Company, Inc. As their deaths occur in the winter when the ground is frozen, the parents must be buried at sea: Sarah by Sennet, Sennet by Evered, both wrenching and onerous tasks. ![]() Martha dies, then Sarah, and shortly after, Sennet, all victims of tuberculosis. The Bests’ is the most meager of livings, but it is about to be further diminished. The family’s survival has depended on catching, salting and drying cod to sell to a dealer who appears twice a year on the ship Hope-in autumn to collect the fish, in spring to deliver supplies. Evered is 12 and Ava is 10 when their parents and baby sister die and leave them to survive on their own. The Best family-Sennet, Sarah, and their children Evered, Ada and baby Martha-have lived in isolation on a small cove for as long as the two older children can remember. The Innocents is set on Newfoundland’s harsh northern coastline, 100 or more years in the past. The Innocents is the newest novel by multiple award winning novelist Michael Crummey. ![]() Like its predecessors, it is set against Newfoundland’s uncompromising land- and seascape, in this case in the first half of the 19th century. He is the bestselling author of four critically acclaimed novels, River Thieves, The. ![]() ‘T he Innocents’ is the Canadian poet and writer Michael Crummey’s fifth novel. Crummey was born in Buchans, a mining town in the interior of Newfoundland. ![]()
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