Child of the Seal Clan

This is a story about a young boy striving to come to terms with the unexplained death of his mother. It is set in two distinct realities: 1960s England, where Keith lives with his troubled father, and the Indigenous Canada of the 1860s, which Keith is learning about in class.

The setting opens in Southern England, and the year is 1963. Grieving his mother, eight-year-old Keith retreats into an imaginary world, fuelled by his school lessons about Amerindian culture and colonial history, to f...