Bornholm night-ferry / by Aidan Higgins

"A novel"

Higgins explores the swell and ebb of a forbidden affair between an Irish novelist and a Danish poet 20 years his junior. Finn and Elin meet only a handful of times over their five-year relationship, finding occasional and sometimes spontaneous sanctuary from their mundane married lives by stealing time in Spain or the calm harbors of Bornholm Island, the Baltic's serene natural fortress. Such meetings occur entirely offstage, and are related only through the literary lovers' letters, which allow them to explore together beautiful and rugged escapes that neither could find alone, although eventually reveal the true locus of their reverie to be an island of words and dreams