Books like Kit's law by Donna Morrissey
Kit Pitman lives alone in a ramshackle cottage on Newfoundland’s outer banks, where isolation is the only constant. Her only companions are fogbound fishermen and the occasional young man welcomed ashore to safeguard the town’s bloodlines. Compounding her solitude is the enigmatic history of her family and the circumstances of her birth. Josie, Kit’s mother, is mentally challenged and often wanders through the clapboard houses along the shore, making the small community’s disdain a daily challenge. Lizzy, Kit’s grandmother, protects them both from the disapproving gaze of the pious townsfolk until she dies suddenly, leaving Kit and her childlike mother vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and unexpected dangers that threaten to tear their fragile bond apart.
First publish date: 1999
Genre: General Fiction/General Fiction
Authors: Donna Morrissey
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