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Destination: County Cork Departure Time: 2000s Never seen the Irish coast?
The Night Swimmer
What you need to know before your trail
Fred and Elly Bulkington win a pub in a contest (as you do) and to claim their prize, travel from Vermont to a small town on the southern coast of Ireland.
Fred immerses himself in the life of a pub-owner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where she becomes fascinated with the outdoors and swimming. She falls in love with the island and becomes embroiled in a family who has controlled the area for years. Their experiences of the island and the life there is very different and these differences start to show.
When their marriage starts to unravel, Fred and Elly have some decisions to make.
Locations
ResetTravel Guide
Imagine winning a pub and moving country to run it? Well that is quite the adventure that we are taken on as we leave rural Vermont and go all the way across the water to Ireland. The rural rugged beauty of ireland is captivating to many so for an American couple who end up there for the biggest adventure of their lives.
Fred runs the pub and becomes all embroiled with this. Meanwhile Elly who is a world class simmer and who loved swimming back in Vermont sees a different Ireland, a landscape which offers her the waters, the pools and the sea not to mention the views so she can swim to her hearts content. Elly also has a genetic defect which allows her to swim in some of the coldest waters in the world which works out quite well for Ireland of course. But while Elly feels free, the locals find her suspicious and both her and Fred soon become more of the outsiders than they were before.
Cape Clear becomes a major character as well as a setting and the people who live in this part of the world are suspicious of these people.
Cape Clear might be a backwater of sorts but there are many things hiding in the woods, in the woodwork, in folk stories and in Fred and Elly’s very own relationship.
Streetview Maps
A) The view from the mainland towards Cape Clear Island
C) RoaringWater Bay
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