~ Hardcover
~ Winner of the Dublin Literary Award - 2025
~ New Release - 2023
In an isolated outport on Newfoundland's northern coastline, Abe Strapp is about to marry the daughter of a rival merchant in order to cement his hold on the shore when the Widow Caines arrives to throw the wedding and Abe's plans into chaos . . .
A dark, enthralling novel about love and its limitations, the corruption of power and the power of corruption, The Adversary is compulsively readable and uncompromisingly masterful evocation of a lost time, and a shadowed mirror to our modern politics of grievance and retribution.
"Gobsmackingly accomplished, The Adversary is a peerless study of interpersonal strife and power dynamics, as well as a portrait series of a community deeply prone to weathers." -- Quill and Quire