Kit's Law: A Novel
- ISBN-10
- 0547630557
- ISBN-13
- 9780547630557
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 404
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001-05-03
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Author
- Donna Morrissey
Description
Morrissey’s acclaimed, bestselling debut. “A Dickensian brawl of a novel . . . never a dull moment! The reader is willingly swept along in the tide.” —St. Louis Post-Dispatch In this powerful novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find “all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty heroine whom we can’t help rooting for on every page” (Margot Livesey). 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 an 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 disabled and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues, as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship, although blurred, are deeply felt. Kit’s Law is a novel of extraordinary, almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent. “An extraordinary trinity of women.” —Thomas Keneally, #1 bestselling author of Schindler’s List “A stunning debut.” —The Telegraph “Impossible to put down.” —The Sunday Business Post “Speaks directly to the heart.” —The Globe and Mail
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
Kit's Law; A Novel
By Donna MorrisseyGreat middle greats fiction.
-
Downhill Chance
By Donna MorrisseySet in a pair of isolated fishing communities in Newfoundland during and after the Second World War, this is the story of two families joined by friendship but torn apart by fear and sorrows.
-
Sylvanus Now: A Novel
By Donna MorrisseyThrough this story of love, loss, and transformation in a dissolving community, Donna Morrissey plumbs the depths of authentic relationships and breathes potent life into the ravaged Newfoundland landscape.
-
The Essence of Nathan Biddle
By J. William LewisBeautifully written, profoundly moving, and resplendent with characters destined to remain with you long after the last page is turned, The Essence of Nathan Biddle is unforgettable.
-
City of Angels
By Tracie Peterson, James Scott BellThe courtrooms of 1903 Los Angeles are a man's world -- until Kit Shannon arrives ...
-
The Technoscientific Witness of Rape: Contentious Histories of Law, Feminism, and Forensic Science
By Andrea QuinlanThe Technoscientific Witness of Rape is the first book to chart the thirty year history of the sexual assault evidence kit and its role in a criminal justice system that re-victimizes many assault victims in their quest for medical ...
-
What Beautiful Mistake Did You Make Today?
By Donna MorrisseyThose poor, beautiful mistakes just want to be loved for guiding you." This amusing story takes place in a fairy house with illustrations that include scampering woodland creatures and an abundance of love and magical fairy dust.
-
What They Wanted
By Donna MorrisseyIn What They Wanted, the second part of the Sylvanus Now Trilogy, award-winning author Donna Morrissey explores both new and familiar terrain: a divided house on the shores of Newfoundland...
-
Cross Katie Kross
By Donna MorrisseyPUFFIN an imprint of Penguin Canada Published by the Penguin Group Penguin Group (Canada), 90 Eglinton Avenue East, Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4P2Y3 (a division of Pearson Canada Inc.) Penguin Group (USA) Inc., ...
-
Dear Killer
By Katherine EwellAs New York Times bestselling author of the Gone series Michael Grant says, Dear Killer is "shocking, mesmerizing, and very smart." Rule One: Nothing is right, nothing is wrong. Rule Two: Be careful.