Nicholas Herring lives in Murray Harbour, on Prince Edward Island, where he works as a carpenter. His debut novel, Some Hellish, follows the fortunes of a hapless lobster fisherman lost in an unexceptional life and bored of thinking the same old thoughts. Then, one December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor of his home, and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life. The novel won the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the audiobook version is narrated by award-winning stage and screen actor Richard Clarken Join Nicholas and Red as they discuss the highs and lows of a community navigating the uncertainties of the annual lobster fishing season on P.E.I.
Nicholas Herring lives in Murray Harbour, on Prince Edward Island, where he works as a carpenter. His debut novel, Some Hellish, follows the fortunes of a hapless lobster fisherman lost in an unexceptional life and bored of thinking the same old thoughts. Then, one December day, following a hunch, he cuts a hole in the living room floor of his home, and installs a hoist, altering the course of everything in his life.
The novel won the 2022 Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and the audiobook version is narrated by award-winning stage and screen actor Richard Clarken
Join Nicholas and Red as they discuss the highs and lows of a community navigating the uncertainties of the annual lobster fishing season on P.E.I.