Matt Bondurant's novel�The Wettest County in the World�was a�New York Times�Editor's Pick, one of the San Francisco Chronicle's 50 Best Books of the Year, and is now a
major motion picture. Now, Bondurant has delivered�The Night Swimmer, an atmospheric tale infused with Hitchcockian suspense. When Fred and Elly Bulkington arrive in a small town on
the southern coast of Ireland from Vermont, having won a pub in a contest, they encounter a wild, strange land and the native resistance to outsiders. As Fred immerses himself in the life of
a pub-owner, Elly takes the ferry out to a nearby island where she��o the disbelief of the locals��s consumed by�her ritual of open water ocean swimming, pushing herself to the limits. Elly
becomes enmeshed in the island's troubles��he power struggles between an enigmatic goat herder and the family that has controlled the area for centuries��hile Fred's sanity wavers and their
marriage begins to unravel. Filled with lush imagery of the Irish coast, crashing sea, rolling hills, and rich Irish lore,�The Night Swimmer�is a stunning novel that exposes the dark
and unseen crevasses in the human heart.
