Eidi has made enormous adjustments in her short life, but this latest seems impossible to accept. Her mother Foula has given birth to a baby boy. Not wanting to share her mother, Eidi departs, wearing her “better luck-next-time” (11) shawl, to help Rossan weave his sheep’s wool. Instead, Rossan takes her to market on the far side of the peninsula. Fate intervenes so that Eidi and Rossan must stay in Eastern Harbor longer than expected. Reluctantly, Eidi accepts the surprises she encounters and absconds with an abused orphan, eventually arriving home at Crow Cove. Bodil Bredsdorff has penned an engrossing companion to her 2005 Batchelder Honor Book, The Crow-Girl. 2010 USBBY Outstanding International Books List, 2010 Mildred L. Batchelder Honor Book. lmp

Some years have passed since the Crow-Girl set off on a journey, met Eidi and her mother, Foula, along with a few others, and persuaded them to come live near the little cove where a brook runs out to the sea. But when Foula has another baby, Eidi feels there's no longer room for her in the settlement. So she leaves Crow Cove to make her own way in the world, hoping to help her old friend Rossan with his wool out on the heath. Fate, however, brings her to a harbor town where she must find work, and she takes a position as a weaver in the household of a wealthy merchant. In town, Eidi faces disturbing reminders of her past. She also meets a neglected boy named Tink and soon makes a decision that changes the course of both of their futures.

The second book in the Children of Crow Cove series is beautifully written in Bodil Bredsdorff's spare style and will deeply satisfy fans of The Crow-Girl and new readers alike.