Name for Himself

"e;Twelve months in any place, my friend, is quite a weary while And seems more like a century when lived on Sable Isle ..."e; So wrote Thomas Raddall at the age of eighteen, not dreaming that many years later Sable Island - that "e;hell on earth"e; - would provide a romantic background for one of his greatest novels, The Nymph and the Lamp. Traumatized by the horror of the great Halifax Explosion...