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Swimming Home

Large Print
(192 Pages)
Product Number: LP2856
Released: 01 Oct, 2012
Business Term: Purchase
ISBN: #9781471216688
Publisher: W F Howes
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Description

As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. But the girl is very much alive. She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe’s wife allow her to remain? Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people.

Author(s): Deborah Levy
Genre: Literature
Original Publish Date: 01 Oct, 2012

Professional reviews

"Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012 ‘Deborah Levy’s storytelling is allusive, elliptical and disturbing. Her touch is gentle, often funny and always acute… This is a prizewinner.’ JULIA PASCAL for THE INDEPENDENT ‘Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting.’ CHRISTINA PETRIE for THE SUNDAY TIMES ‘A stealthily devastating book … Levy manipulates light and shadow with artfulness. She transfixes the reader … This is an intelligent, pulsating literary beast.’ THE DAILY TELEGRAPH"

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