Night Swimmers is the moving and funny debut novel by Roisin Maguire, set in a quirky coastal community.
Grace lives alone in Ballybrady, a village on the east coast of Northern Ireland. She
fills her days with swimming, fishing, quilting, and baiting the tourists who arrive from the city with more money than sense.
One of the tourists is Evan, taking an enforced holiday after the death of his daughter. He has come to try to process his grief, but he hasn't been there a week until he gets trapped by lockdown. When Grace saves his life in a kayaking accident and Evan's
troubled son arrives to stay, all three are drawn together in a way that forces a reckoning with their personal traumas and draws them back into society.
'A glowing, generous novel' Irish Times
