The Shipping News

"I'm tired of going somewhere. I want to be there!"
These words spoken by Bunny Quoyle, riding along with her family on their way to the old homestead in Killick Claw, New Newfoundland
seems an exclamation to a deeper desire to settle what has been an unsettled and unhappy life. The quote could also define the transition that Quolyle, Bunny's father, experiences. Quoyle is nowhere it seems, until he finally arrives somewhere meaningful. The transformation is a lot about getting over the loss of his wife, Petal, but also much about getting over himself as a loser and getting to a place of contentedness and confidence. Quoyle's life rides on waves – some small that are body-surfing-like, others that are huge and tumultuous that crash onshore with Tsunami-like devastation. Eventually, he manages to find a place suitable and sustaining.
Quoyle began life feeling, believing that he had been born into the wrong family; that somehow he ended up with the......

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Title: A Lost Lady
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