Beyond the drugstore and the diner of a rural town is another world - a wilderness - waiting to be explored. Deer can be stalked, pools of trout fished, grouse shot, and traplines laid for fur....

Quoyle is a hapless, hopeless hack journalist living and working in New York. When his no-good wife is killed in a spectacular road accident, Quoyle heads for the land of his forefathers - the remotest corner of far-flung Newfoundland. With 'the aunt' and his delinquent daughters - Bunny and Sunshine - in tow, Quoyle finds himself part of an unfolding, exhilarating Atlantic drama.