Map showing the location of The Beaches, NL in Newfoundland and Labrador
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Place

The Beaches, NL

The Beaches, White Bay · town

Map location of The Beaches, NL

Scenes set here

  • Cover of Pluck
    Pluck

    Donna Morrissey

    Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, a small village on the northwest coast of Newfoundland that had neither roads nor electricity until the 1960s.

Books here

  • Cover of Pluck by Donna Morrissey
    settingPluck

    Donna Morrissey

    The 49th Shelf publisher card for Pluck verbatim anchors the memoir to The Beaches; the Globe and Mail interview corroborates that Pluck is set in The Beaches and explicitly identifies it as a fishing-community memoir.

References

  1. 1.Pluck: Donna Morrissey, Pluck (Viking, 2021), publisher card excerpt via 49th Shelf