- David Ward's writing is at once precise and beautiful. His storytelling and his sense of narrative timing, like the rhythm of his prose, is impeccable. - Part memoir, part nature writing, part embedded journalism and part love story, Bay of Hope is all adventure. The book is evenly balanced in content about the community, the time, and Ward's life. - For readers of Farley Mowat's Bay of Spirits, Alan Doyle's Where I Belong, Annie Dillard's Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek, and Michael Crummey's Sweetland. - Primarily for Canada, great Newfoundland local interest.