Random Passage
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Book Description
Forced to leave their native England, the Andrews family books passage to a
fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land
at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from
everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven
by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for
those details that headstones and history books can never give: the
"real" story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance
brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of
families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned whose
thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who
might be an aristocrat, a holy man or a murderer; and of Lavinia-who wrote down
the truth and lies about them all.
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