Culled from the personal diaries of Jessie Lewis, Captain Kean's Secret is the history of a family embroiled in one of St. John's best-known class struggles of the twentieth century—the bitter conflict between the fish merchants and the working class—and the true story of a young girl who recorded it all, including her own shocking revelation, which lies intertwined with the fate of one of Newfoundland and Labrador's most famous sealing captains. source
Places
- Set atPennywell Road, St. John's↗
Street-level anchor in St. John's — Lewis family home where the diaries were kept that became this 1914 sealing-disaster account. Also namesake of Flanker's Pennywell Books imprint — a quiet partnership-resonance signal.
Atlantic Books Today, Northeast Avalon Times, and The Western Star reviews of Captain Kean's Secret (T. C. Badcock, Flanker Press, 2013), quoted on publisher product page — source
