Follows the life of a young girl adopted by the Newfoundland community of Drook after she is found floating on an ice pan in the North Atlantic in 1912. The odd little girl grows up to fall in love with a lighthouse keeper. It is not until she is very old that the foundling named Aurora recalls the events that led her to be abandoned on the ice floe. 2000. source
Places
- Set atThe Drook, Trepassey Bay↗
A Memorial University scholar names the specific real NL settlement (The Drook, Trepassey Bay) at the heart of the novel.
Valerie Legge, review of Latitudes of Melt, Newfoundland and Labrador Studies — source
