Quoyle is a failed newspaperman with a disastrous past and no clear future—until his wife’s death sends him spiraling toward the sea.
Dragged to Newfoundland by his formidable aunt, he lands in a crumbling ancestral home with two troubled daughters and a heart too battered to hope. He’s soon reporting the shipping news for a bizarre local paper, surviving on cod cheeks, bleak weather, and stories of wreckage—both literal and emotional.
But as winter seals the coast in ice, something inside Quoyle thaws. Among eccentric townsfolk, haunted histories, and the steady rhythm of the sea, he begins to untangle his identity—and maybe even build something new from the wreckage.
In a land of storms and secrets, can one broken man anchor a life worth keeping?
