With an introduction by Michael Crummey Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give, the "real" story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned, whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man or a murderer; and of Lavinia, who wrote down the truth and the lies about them all.
