This book consists of thirty-nine chapters,and concerns the adventures of Quoyle. Quoyle had many traumatic events in his life. His parents commit a joint suicide, and his unfaithful wife has died in a car accident with another man, and leaving him with two young daughters. With the passage of time, Quoyle is finally convinced by his aunt to move to Newfoundland in search of a new life. The aunt, Quoyle and his daughters move together to live in their ancestral home in Newfoundland. Over time, in Killick-Claw, Newfoundland, and luckily, Quoyle's friend Partridge finds Quoyle a newspaper job. As Quoyle builds his new life in Newfoundland. He makes friends, and begins a relationship with a local woman, Wavey Prowse. In Newfoundland, there are
