The Cove Shivering Club

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Michael Curtin
9781857025705

It all began on Good Friday 1955, when aged ten, Junior Nash and Dunstan Tucker swam each way across the bay defying the freshness of the Atlantic in spring and thereby became full members of The Cove Shivering Club. The rules were simple: you don't piss in the water and you don't bring a woman.

Years later the club members reconvene to decide how to deal with a rule-breaking woman, and indeed with modernity in general.

With its maze of comic twists and turns, The Cove Shivering Club brilliantly demonstrates Michael Curtin's wicked sense of the humorous absurd and his deeply affectionate understanding of the most human of moral frailties.