Night Swimmers [electronic resource]
Maguire, Roisin2024
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD OVER 10,000 COPIES SOLD 'Heaven' Katherine May, bestselling author of Wintering 'A glowing, generous novel' Irish Times 'A warm, unsentimental and beautifully observed book for our times' Lucy Caldwell, author of These Days 'Grace is a fabulous character ... there's a touch of Olive Kitteridge in her' Good Housekeeping Grace lives alone in a coastal village in Northern Ireland, filling her days with wild swimming, fishing, quilting and baiting the tourists who blow in from the city. One of the visitors is Evan, on an enforced holiday from his family in Belfast as he grieves the death of his infant daughter. But before a week is out, he is trapped there by lockdown. When Grace grudgingly saves Evan from drowning, and his reserved young son arrives unexpectedly, all three are startled into a reckoning with their past and a reconnection with the outside world.
Main title:
Night Swimmers [electronic resource] / Roisin Maguire
Author:
Maguire, Roisin, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Profile, 2024
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1 online resource (1 text file)
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Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Roisin Maguire lives in Downpatrick, Northern Ireland, where she works as a business manager. In 2019, she completed the Write Here... in Belfast novel-writing course, taught by Jan Carson, which was designed to discover exciting, new Northern Irish voices in fiction.
ISBN:
9781800816756
Language:
English
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BRN:
4270962
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