Quoyle applies for an ink setter job at the Gammy Bird. Quoyle's cousin Nolan, an old hermit, reveals that young Agnis was raped and impregnated by her teenaged brother (Quoyle's father), resulting in an abortion. When those Quoyles were driven out, they moved their house over a frozen lake to its present location, now known as Quoyle's Point. Quoyle learns that the ancient Quoyles were pirates that ran ships aground and savagely pillaged them. Wavey eventually admits she pretends to be widowed, ashamed that her philandering husband left when she was pregnant. Wavey and Quoyle gradually develop a deepening relationship. While struggling to build a new life, restore the derelict house, and care for Bunny, Quoyle meets Wavey Prowse, a widow whose young son, Harry, has a learning disability. Agnis agrees to stay a few more days to help Quoyle through his recent turmoil, then persuades him to move to Newfoundland with her. Agnis is moving to the ancestral family home in Newfoundland, which has been abandoned for 44 years. Quoyle's aunt, Agnis Hamm, arrives to pay her respects to her late brother, though her real motive is to steal Guy's ashes (which she later dumps down an outhouse hole and urinates on). Shortly before those events, Quoyle's elderly parents die by suicide together. The police return Bunny to Quoyle, informing him that Petal sold her to a black market adoption operation for $6,000.
Soon after, Petal and her boyfriend are killed in a car accident. Petal runs off with a lover, taking Bunny with her. Petal is an unfaithful wife and a negligent mother to their six-year-old daughter, Bunny. He becomes infatuated with and marries a vivacious local woman named Petal. Quoyle, now an ink setter at a small newspaper in Poughkeepsie, New York, lives a lonely life.
Images of flailing in water and nearly drowning often resurface in Quoyle's memory when he is under stress.
When Quoyle was a young boy, his father, Guy, tossed him into a lake, expecting him to swim naturally. Cate Blanchett, Pete Postlethwaite, Scott Glenn, Rhys Ifans, Jason Behr, and Gordon Pinsent appear in supporting roles. It stars Kevin Spacey as Quoyle, Judi Dench as Agnis Hamm, and Julianne Moore as Wavey Prowse. The Shipping News is a 2001 Canadian-Swedish-American drama film directed by Lasse Hallström, based on Annie Proulx's Pulitzer Prize-winning book of the same title.
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