The Winterhouse

by Robin McGrath

"My father has married me to a mad old man." These words, written on a slip of paper inside a fading brocade collar, are a clue to the unlikely marriage of a Jewish remittance man and a 14-year-old orphan in a remote Newfoundland fishing station. More curious still are the connections that entangle a retired schoolteacher and an Israeli scholar almost two centuries later. When the bereaved Rosehannah Quint and her mysterious "mister" retreat into...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1897174519
• ISBN13: 9781897174517
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Breakwater Books
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"