Gaff topsails
Fishing villages
Irish fiction
Irish
Canada, fiction
Catholics
Fiction, religious
New York Times reviewed
Fiction, general
History
Fiction
This first novel is a tapestry woven from sea, soil, and the souls of a small Irish Catholic parish on the coast of Newfoundland. It is June 24, 1948 - the Feast of St. John the Baptist, the Bringer of Light, commemorated with bonfires ignited on the headlands. Father MacMurrough, newly arrived and …
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