Sprawling and intimate, fantastical and true, Galore is a novel about the power of stories to shape and sustain us. It is Michael Crummey’s most ambitious and accomplished work to date.

An intricate family saga and a love story spanning two centuries, Michael Crummey’s new novel is a portrait of the improbable medieval world of rural Newfoundland, where the line between the real and the otherworldly is impossible to distinguish. A mute and naked stranger arrives in Paradise Deep in the belly of a whale. A widow’s family is haunted by the curse she placed as a young woman on the local merchant. A defrocked priest takes extraordinary measures to exorcise a murderer’s ghost. A charismatic political reformer with a devastating secret sets out to save the country from itself.

Set in a realm somewhere between the stark coastal landscape and a world of superstition and myth, Galore is alive with singular characters, political and emotional intrigue, and uncommon insight into the complexities of human nature.
 

"It's an incredibly difficult task to make characters such as these work as human beings as well as elements of folklore, and Crummey does it with as much skill and grace as Gabriel Garcia Márquez does in One Hundred Years of Solitude... Michael Crummey is without a doubt one of Canada's finest writers."
-The Globe and Mail

"...pitch-perfect, boisterous...The language of Newfoundland is a poetic gold mine and Crummey has made full use of it... Galore is an endearing romp. For the language alone — and there is so much more — I loved the book. May Newfoundland English never die."
-Katherine Govier, National Post

"This economically told epic is masterful, written by a man with enough confidence to let his readers interpolate the meaning not only of certain words, but entire character arcs."
-Toronto Star

"Galore is an absolute pleasure. In Crummey's capable hands, the setting breeds magic... A complex narrative that feels effortless, yet is woven so tightly that the magnificent artistry of its creator cannot be ignored."
-The Walrus