Just ploughed through Annie Proulx's major classic (I believe that is the right phrase for it now) The Shipping News.
Our church book club is studying it in July and I read it whilst in Austria.
You can smell the cold air of Newfoundland and the dominance of fish and boats throughout its pages.
Quoyle, played in the movie based on this novel by Kevin Spacey, takes a job on a local newspaper and what I will always remember about this book is one of the opening chapters where the essence of writing a good news story are laid out to the new journalistic recruit.
It's so good - you could use it in any media training seminar.
This is a good beach read if you don't mind the thought of cod pies and lobster salads.
It;s the story of triumph over endurance, difficult children, the power of the sea - and ultimately - the power of the written word.
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