![]() ![]() The novel focuses on 14-year-old Kit Pitman, who lives with her mother and grandmother in the isolated outport of Haire's Hollow. The book won the Canadian Booksellers' Association Libris Award, Britain's Winifred Holtby Prize, and the American Library Association's Alex Award. Although she later moved to Halifax, Morrissey's writing continues to explore the Newfoundland outport existence and the events that continue to alter and threaten that way of life.ĭonna Morrissey garnered international attention with her first novel, Kit's Law (1999). She left there when she was 16, settling in St John's, where she received a Bachelor of Social Work and a diploma in Adult Education from Memorial University of Newfoundland. Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, an outport community on the northwest coast of NEWFOUNDLAND. Donna Morrissey, novelist, scriptwriter (b at The Beaches, Nfld 13 January 1956). ![]()
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