One Man, One Campervan, Fifteen Headlands and the Secret His Wife Left Behind — the Complete Illustrated Trilogy of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way

When Jim Brennan's wife died, she left him a battered sketchbook, eleven words, and an instruction: paint all fifteen headlands of Ireland's Wild Atlantic Way. She also left him twelve letters, sewn into the back cover, that she never mentioned in twenty-six years of marriage.

The Complete Journey is the whole road in one volume — South by the Sea, The Long Middle and North to the Edge together: one summer, Kinsale to Malin Head, fifty-two paintings, and the truth waiting at the end of the road at Banba's Crown.

Every chapter closes with the original painting it produced — full-colour plates in oil, gouache and watercolour of Charles Fort, the Skelligs, the Cliffs of Moher, Dún Briste, Slieve League and the rest of the fifteen Signature Discovery Points — making this as much an illustrated sketchbook of the Irish coast as it is the story of a man learning how to be alone in a good way.

The complete trilogy in a single collectible edition. Also available as three individual volumes in The Painter's Road collection.

By F Cosgrove. Full-colour 7″×10″ paperback (591 pages) and Kindle ebook.

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