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Dec 07, 2019jeanie123 rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
The Innocents, brother Evered and sister Ada, remain truly innocent to the end. Theirs is a hard and bleak subsistence life in a small cove on Newfoundland, copying the ways their parents showed them to fish cod to trade for provisions and to grow and gather and preserve food through grueling conditions. The book is beautifully written and the language feels very natural to the setting, although I did have to refer to the Dictionary of Newfoundland English on several occasions.