Random Passage
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $15.99
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
Forced to flee 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 Andrews, 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. Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller.
Customer Reviews
Random Passage.
This is an incredible story. It shows me that there is no way I could write a true story of the life of my grandparents whose story was set in Newfoundland on Ireland’s Eye in the early 1900’s, because I was raised in the deserts of Arizona. But I saw both of my grandparents and the life they led in this book. I cried, I laughed and I stand in amazement at the life of these in wonderfully developed characters. Beautifully written. I wish she would write another.