Kit's Law

In this powerfulnovel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields we find all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place an intricate and suspenseful plot and a feisty heroine whom we cant help rooting for on every page (Margot Livesey). Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and an occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kits isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother Josie is mentally retarded and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to lifes harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship although blurred are deeply felt. Kit''s Law is a novel of extraordinary almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent.