The Innocents by Michael Crummey5/24/2023 ![]() ![]() His previous books - River Thieves, The Wreckage, Galore and Sweetland - have been nominated for, or won, prestigious prizes all over the world. ![]() The Innocents provides Crummey with a rich landscape for exploring childhood and all its mysteries and discovery, fear and confusion. Their parents and an infant sister have died, leaving the children to cope with - and create - a world unto themselves. Ada and Evered find themselves orphaned and alone in an isolated cove on the north shore of Newfoundland. That anecdote lodged itself in Michael Crummey's head, and eventually led him to write his fifth work of fiction, a novel called The Innocents. When the clergyman approached them to ask how they came to be there on their own, the boy chased him off at gunpoint. John's archives, he came upon a reference to an 18th century clergyman who discovered two young siblings living on their own in an isolated cove. ![]() Years ago, while doing some research in the St. Michael Crummey's latest book came into being almost by happenstance. ![]()
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