Review
All Gone Widdun's portrait of sanctioned inhumanity is near brilliant . . . a captivating story, very well told. -- Globe & Mail, July 24, 1999, Jim Bartley
Beckel offers us a new world and new insights into the human heart. It's a beautiful story, beautifully rendered. -- Creativity Connection, October, 1999, Marshall Cook
The only time I put it down was to dry my eyes. ( Gerald Squires, cover artist)
Beckel offers us a new world and new insights into the human heart. It's a beautiful story, beautifully rendered. -- Creativity Connection, October, 1999, Marshall Cook
The only time I put it down was to dry my eyes. ( Gerald Squires, cover artist)
All Gone Widdun is a very powerful, well-written novel which truly brings alive the character of Shawnawdithit. Through her words and actions we are brought to realize the full tragedy of her unfortunate race, and the longings of Shawnawdithit to be once again with her own people. This novel will provide many hours of reading enjoyment and at the same time highlight one of the saddest chapters in our history. -- Mike McCarthy, Evening Telegram
Product Description
This is a novel of one mans quixotic mission to save the Beothuk of Newfoundland from extinction, his love for Shawnadithit, and the tragedy of her life and the lives of her people. Based on true accounts, the novel is told in the alternating first-person narratives of William Epps Cormack, an eccentric Newfoundland-born Scottish merchant, and Shawnadithit, a young Beothuk woman captured by English settlers in 1823 who proved to be the last Beothuk.
Movie rights under negotiation.
