In the Custodian of Paradise, Wayne Johnston builds on the story he began in The Colony of Unrequited Dreams and delivers a riveting narrative with the incomparable Sheilagh Fielding at its heart. Fielding - advancing on middle age, hobbled by disfigurement and personal demons - mysteriously retreats to Loreburn, a deserted island off the south coast of Newfoundland, where she considers the series of events that made her seek such isolation. Wayne Johnston continues his masterful exploration of life in pre-Confederation Newfoundland, and of the powerful forces that give rise to great character - individualism, circumstance and secrecy; memory, loss and regret.
