The Confessions of Nipper Mooney, full of vivid character portraits and written with a playwright's ear for dialogue, is a compelling story that charts an original course through the beauties and horrors of childhood. source
❝ Scene
“Most eventually moved on, wanting to put as much distance between themselves and the scene of their desertion as possible, but others — perhaps John Mooney among them — stayed, cleared the forests, and farmed some of the best land on the Avalon Peninsula. By the late nineteenth century Kildura was a thriving farming community.”
Verbatim passage anchors Kildura — the novel's principal setting — explicitly to the Avalon Peninsula as a farming community adjacent to St. John's, supporting an Avondale/Kilbride-area placement.
Ed Kavanagh, The Confessions of Nipper Mooney (Killick Press, 2001), preview via Everand — source
