New Girl in Little Cove
Damhnait Monaghan
The position is filled by Rachel O’Brien, a young woman from Toronto desperate for a fresh start after a failed relationship and the death of her father. Rachel isn’t surprised that her students don’t see the value of learning French. But she is surprised that she can barely understand their English, which is thickly accented and full of unfamiliar expressions. When she is called a sleveen, is it a compliment or an insult? (Insult.) And the anonymous notes left on her car, telling her to go home, certainly don’t make her feel welcome.
Still, Rachel is quickly drawn into the island’s traditional music and culture, and the personal lives of her students as well as her fellow teacher Doug Bishop. But when her beliefs clash with Church and community, Rachel makes a decision that throws her career into jeopardy. In trying to help a student, has she gone too far? Only the intervention of the “Holy Dusters,” the local women who hook rugs and clean the church, will assure her salvation.
New Girl in Little Cove is a heartfelt debut that reveals how strangers are sometimes a better comfort than friends.
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