One chilly dawn in the year 1912 a fisherman finds a mysterious, beautiful infant floating on an ice floe in the North Atlantic. this is her story. the inhabitants of the poor Newfoundland fishing village of Drook believe that Aurora, with her shock of white hair and eyes of different colors, is a changeling. Her very survival shows that her life is charmed. As she grows up, her adoptive family perceives the many ways in which Aurora's nature deviates from theirs. She marries a lighthouse keeper and has two children, both ...
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One chilly dawn in the year 1912 a fisherman finds a mysterious, beautiful infant floating on an ice floe in the North Atlantic. this is her story. the inhabitants of the poor Newfoundland fishing village of Drook believe that Aurora, with her shock of white hair and eyes of different colors, is a changeling. Her very survival shows that her life is charmed. As she grows up, her adoptive family perceives the many ways in which Aurora's nature deviates from theirs. She marries a lighthouse keeper and has two children, both named after shipwrecks, but it is only after they are grown and married, and she is an old woman, that the mystery of Aurora's origins - and of her children's variant temperaments - is solved.
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Seller's Description:
Fine in None Issued jacket. 374 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. In 1912, Two Fishermen Discover A Baby's Cradle Floating On An Ice Pan In The North Atlantic Sea Off The Coast Of Newfoundland.
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Very Good in None Issued jacket. 374 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. In 1912 A Baby Is Found Floating In The North Atlantic. the Local Community Adopts Her And She Grows Up And Marries And Have Children Of Her Own. She Is Said To Be A Fairy Child And Has One Brown And One Blue Eye. Years Later A Stranger Arrives And Starts Asking Questions And Her Identity Is Finally Revealed.