“Eighty-four years is time enough for one life,” Keziah Donovan muses as she waits for death to reunite her with her “own sweet man.” Stricken by a paralytic stroke, Keziah’s body is immobile but her mind is on a journey through a life that spans two centuries. The reader is carried along on this journey by her rich inner narrative, through the tumultuous public history of eight decades and the equally turbulent events of her own personal history—births, marriages, deaths and other mysteries. 

Set in rural and urban Newfoundland, this novel is alive with landscape and language. In Keziah Donovan, award-winning writer Robin McGrath has created an unforgettable story-teller with a voice so authentic and distinctive that it compels the reader to sit and listen, and rings in the ear long after its last syllables die away.