Swimming Home Paperback / softback
by Deborah Levy
Paperback / softback
Description
Shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2012 Specsavers National Book Awards (UK Author of the Year) Shortlisted for the 2013 Jewish Quarterly Wingate Prize 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.
Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:165 pages
- Publisher:And Other Stories
- Publication Date:06/10/2011
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- ISBN:9781908276025
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Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:165 pages
- Publisher:And Other Stories
- Publication Date:06/10/2011
- Category:
- ISBN:9781908276025