Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and… source
Places
- Set atCape Island, Bonavista — 505 Cape Shore Rd↗
Heritage NL explicitly names the real-coast anchors (Cape Island, Bonavista North; Random Island, Trinity Bay) behind Morgan's fictional Cape Random.
Aaron Peach, 'Bernice Morgan (1935–),' Heritage NL — source
