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Night Swimmers

The Irish cult hit novel of 2025 for fans of Claire Keegan

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Night Swimmers

By: Roisin Maguire
Narrated by: Roisin Maguire
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SHORTLISTED FOR THE KATE O'BRIEN AWARD

'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.©2024 Roisin Maguire (P)2026 Profile Books Limited Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural Women's Fiction
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Characters so deeply developed -love the character of Grace and her caustic tongue. It is story driven by tragedy but ultimately becomes a story of redemption and hope, of fractured relationships mended and new beginnings. Every single character resonates -such a beautiful melding of different people formed by different life events that come together so effortlessly. So impressed. 5 stars… easily.

Simply beautiful.

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Slow start but ended up being a very good story very relatable I really enjoyed how the characters were developed

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