With razor-sharp acuity and snappy language, Dayboil centres on a community in crisis––a kitchen-table comedy that quickly takes a dark turn.

Four middle-aged women meet at Kathy's house in rural Newfoundland for their weekly cup of tea and gossip when tragic news disrupts their usual banter: Kathy's husband has killed himself. Abruptly, the threads that hold their comfortable community life together begin to snap, and they find themselves exposed by the unravelling of their social fabric.

Darkly funny and deeply touching, Dayboil explores the rigidity of gender roles that prevent men from seeking help and lock women into caretaking positions, as well as the emotional and physical fallout that can result. (From Breakwater Books)

Sharon King-Campbell is a writer from Ottawa who now lives in St. John's. Her first book was This is How It Is which was published in 2021. King-Campbell made the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlist.