The Shipping News

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 1994WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD 1993‘A grand, inimitable writer’ OBSERVER

‘Heartwarming, humorous and poignant’ SUNDAY TIMES

What we have to get over, somehow we do. Even the worst things. Quoyle has endured a life of disappointment. A failed journalist and now a failed husband, he finds himself trapped in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful woman who despises him. When his wife is killed in a car accident, Quoyle makes the rash decision to retreat with his two daughters to their dilapidated, ancestral home on the remote island of Newfoundland. As three generations of his family cobble together new lives there amongst the unpredictable forces of nature and small town life, Quoyle confronts his private demons and is forced to chart a new course.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, The Shipping News is a rousing reminder of the power of second chances and the importance of finding your place in the world.

‘A fierce elegy for a world of weatherbeaten fishermen and cold winters’ INDEPENDENT

‘Proulx excels at portraying the huge struggles and small hopes of ordinary people’ LISSA EVANS, author of V for Victory

‘A reminder that uprooting one’s life is not only for the young and starry-eyed’ C PAM ZHANG, author of Land of Milk and Honey