"Waiting for time" by Bernice Morgan is a very interesting novel. It is the sequel to Bernice Morgan's "Random Passage". In "Waiting for Time" Bernice Morgan continues the saga of the inhabitants of Cape Random. She has further developed the characters into more mature people who have begun to start their own families. In this essay we will discuss the plot and themes of the novel, along with the techniques used by Bernice Morgan, such as imagery and issues.
             Bernice Morgan, a novelist and short story writer, was born in 1935 in St. John's, Newfoundland. She worked in Public Relations, first with Memorial University of Newfoundland, where she was editor of the Gazette, and later with the Newfoundland Teacher's Association, where she was communications officer and editor of the Bulletin until 1986 when she resigned to begin her career in writing. In 1992 she had a great success with her first novel called Random Passage. Only 2 years later (1994), she had another book published called Waiting for Time. She participated in the production of many short stories and plays throughout her life. In 1994 she was awarded the literary prize for fiction by the Canadian Authors Association. In 1996, she was considered the artist of the year by the Newfoundland and Labrador arts council. Now the mother of two daughters and a son, she lives in St. John's, Newfoundland with her husband.
             "Waiting for Time" is the sequel to Bernice Morgan's best-selling "Random Passage". Bernice Morgan does not pick up where the first book left off, rather she begins the second part of the saga with the people of Cape Random in today's Ottawa, as the decedents of the characters in "Random Passage". Lavinia Andrews was seventeen when she sailed with her family from England to settle in isolated place fo Cape Random in Newfoundland. Lavinia Andrews (decedent to Lavinia Andrew...