Terry Doyle: I Want to Write Without Thinking Too Much (NQ Online)
JOAN SULLIVAN: 'The Wards' spills secrets of a working-class family (SaltWire)
Terry Doyle introduces us to The Wards (CBC Weekend AM)
The Wards by Terry Doyle (The Miramichi Reader)
The Wards are a working-class Newfoundland family on the cusp of upheaval. The children are becoming adults, the adults are growing old, and the new dog was probably stolen. When a sudden illness forces the Wards together, can they finally learn to be close-knit?
This unsettling, at times hilarious novel explores the instability of nuclear families and the depths of dysfunction.
Family is family—you don’t get to choose.
So what, exactly, do you get to choose?
*BMO Winterset Award longlist, 2023*
(Source: Breakwater Books)
Terry Doyle is a writer from the Goulds, Newfoundland. Winner of the 2017 Percy Janes First Novel Award, and finalist for the 2017 NLCU Fresh Fish Award, his work has appeared in Riddle Fence, Papermill Press, and the Newfoundland Quarterly.
(Source: Atlantic Books)