When outside interests threaten the rare sea birds of Ballybrady, Grace - usually so keen to do things on her own - realises she needs help to save them. To her displeasure, her main allies against corporate forces are the Rubber Duckies Wild Swimming Club: a gaggle of women with expensive jackets and braying voices. As they work together and draw the whole village into an audacious campaign, Grace begins to relent, learning that each woman has her own powerful and sometimes surprising reason to be committed to their common cause. As irreverent, sharp-eyed and irrepressible as Grace herself, Snow Birds is a winter-themed celebration of community, unlikely friendship and the bracing joys of open water.

Grace is a force of nature - it's impossible not to be swept up in admiration for her, and for Roisin Maguire, who has written such 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 *
Heaven -- Katherine May, bestselling author of Wintering
A glowing, generous novel * Irish Times *

Roisin Maguire is the author of Night Swimmers, which was shortlisted for the Kate O'Brien Award. She holds an MA in Creative Writing from Queen's University. She lives and writes by the sea in Northern Ireland, where she swims every day of the year.