Latitudes of Melt Paperback by Joan Clark

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2001-09-25)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780676972917
• Item Weight: 294.84 grams
• Dimensions: 7.98 x 5.18 x 0.95 cm

This bountiful, magical novel opens with the discovery by two fishermen of a baby floating in a cradle on an ice pan in the North Atlantic off the coast of Newfoundland in 1912. To the small fishing community into which the foundling is adopted, Aurora, as they name her – with her shock of white hair, one blue eye and one brown – is clearly enchanted. But it is not until Aurora is herself an old woman that she learns the heart-wrenching story behind her miraculous survival on the ice.

About the Author

Joan Clark is the author of two previous novels, Eriksdotter and The Victory of Geraldine Gull, which won the Canadian Author’s Association Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, and of a collection of short stories, Swimming Toward the Light. She has also written several award-winning books for children. Joan Clark was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia, and has lived for several years in St. John’s, Newfoundland.