Baltimore's Mansion

I am foreborn of spud runts who fled the famines of Ireland in the 1830s, not a man or woman among them more than five foot two, leaving behind a life of beggarment and setting sail for what since Malory were called the Happy Isles . . .''

So begins Baltimore''s Mansion, Wayne Johnston''s story of his grandfather Charlie, his father Arthur and of the small community of Ferryland on Newfoundland''s ...