The Divine Ryans

From the bestselling author of Jennie’s Boy and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, a beloved comic classic about a young boy struggling to understand the death of his father and the chaos of growing up amid his eccentric, devout Newfoundland family.

In this bittersweet, bestselling novel, young Draper Doyle Ryan grows up in St. John’s, Newfoundland, a Montreal Canadiens fan who hates choir, boxing practice and the obligatory visits to the Ryan family funeral parlour. With the help of his Uncle Reginald’s hilarious talk therapy—”oralysis”—Draper Doyle tries to come to terms with the death of his beloved father as he struggles, in touching, comic fashion with budding adolescence and the strange demands of his proudly eccentric family.

Winner of the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and basis for a major Alliance Communications film release, this treasure of a novel from the author of The Colony of Unrequited Dreams is now a cherished Canadian classic.