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"Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and the occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kit's isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother, Josie, is mentally challenged and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzy staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances that pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzy…
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9 editions- Hardcover · English · 2000Hodder Headline Australia · 400 pages · 9780340769119
- Other · English · 2009Penguin Canada · 391 pages · 9780143170341
- Other · English · 2003Penguin Canada · 383 pages · 9780143014317
- Other · English · 2001Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers · 9781299884311
- Other · English · 2001Sceptre · 400 pages · 9780340769126
- Other · English · 2001Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company · 400 pages · 9780547630557
Mentally ill womenTeenage girlsFictionMothers and daughtersDomestic fictionFiction, generalNewfoundland and labrador, fictionMothers and daughters, fiction






