Une enfant flottant à travers les glaces dans son panier d'osier, survivante du Titanic, est recueillie par des pêcheurs. Ce récit s'intéresse au sort de la rescapée ainsi qu'à celui de plusieurs générations de membres de sa famille. Cadres successifs : Terre-Neuve, l'Angleterre et l'Irlande.
Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal, as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily’s 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has bested Hal by winning her sister’s company for a gourmet lunch, but it becomes a bitter and short-lived victory when the day’s events take an unexpected and tragic turn.
Free-spirited Lily has always played the peacemaker between her fierce, doting sister, Laverne, and her own loving, garrulous husband, Hal, as they competed for her attention. The competition has only grown worse since the three of them moved into a large house in the town of Sussex, New Brunswick. On Lily’s 58th birthday, a steamy day in late June, Laverne feels she has bested Hal by winning her sister’s company for a gourmet lunch, but it becomes a bitter and short-lived victory when the day’s events take an unexpected and tragic turn.
Thrand, un jeune Groenlandais, est enlevé par les Osweet, de la nation des Béothuks, qui occupent ces «terres neuves» situées à l’est d’un continent encore inexploré au XIe siècle. Thrand ne rêve qu’à une chose : s’enfuir et retrouver son Groenland natal,
