The bad Amazon reviews seemed primarily related to the hints of incest as the children grew older. I couldn't wait to find out what happened to these kids. Even though this was not a "thriller", it was a page-turner for me. This was a well-written story of self-sufficiency and surviving in the elements in the wilderness in the not so distant past. Life is rough and hard, but they seem to be making it work, if barely. Later they begin to do a bit of fur trapping as well. We follow them over several years as they fish, salt the fish and sell them to a supply ship that appears twice a year, their only human contact with the outside world. Then, their infant sister and their mother die, and soon after their father dies, leaving them, about ages 12 and 10, to survive on their own. The family scrapes out a living fishing and subsistence farming. Evered and Ada live with their parents on an bleak and isolated Newfoundland cove.
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