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From the author of the critically acclaimed, prizewinning and internationally bestselling The Colony of Unrequited Dreams comes an epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in...

Ernie Tarn has been working all fall and now it is a week before Christmas in Newfoundland in the early 1900s. He’s been saving up enough to buy a $1 pair of screw-heel skates like those he saw in Mr. Walker’s shop window last Christmas. Ernie lives alone with his widowed mother. On Christmas Eve, Ernie walks to the merchant’s store just as the last barrel of shipped goods is about to be opened. When the top comes off the barrel, there is a pair of nickel-plated skates, much fancier than the old screw-heel model, but equally dazzling is a bird-shaped butter cooler.