Local Author
Aberaeron features in a novel by a local author which was published in June 2006. In 'The Long Dry', Cynan Jones writes about the takeover of the town's harbour by dozens of unruly ducks. You can read an extract below.
Extract from 'The Long Dry' by Cynan Jones:"In the local town - a beautiful Georgian harbour town which is not lazy and which is very colourful - the ducks got out of hand.
The river comes in from the low valley, collapsing slowly over the old weirs, under the road bridge and into the harbour to the beach. There's a place on one side of the road bridge where you can sometimes see the current going backwards when the tide comes in, and there are sometimes big crabs and mullet in the salt part of the water. And the ducks come down the river..."
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