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Reviewed on March 15, 2007
Award-winning Canadian author Johnston's seventh novel, which builds on the story he began inThe Colony of Unrequited Dreams , opens against the backdrop of World War II, when a gifted woman of great wit and inner strength seeks refuge on a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland. An only child haunted since age six by her mother's abandonment, Sheilagh Fielding was raised in the city of St. John's by ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More