Leap In: A Woman, Some Waves, and the Will to Swim

Alexandra Heminsley won a legion of fans with her effervescent Running Like a Girl, her manifesto-cum-memoir for anyone who has looked on with sadness at their running shoes lying discarded in the hall.

Now Heminsley weaves the same magic in Leap In, her spellbinding account of challenging our basic fears of the water and rediscovering an almost spiritual new realm.

From her all-too-accurate struggle to get into her first wetsuit to a triumphant swim from Kefalonia to Ithaca, the author's enthusiasm and sense of discovery (both of place and her own internal journey) is resolutely infectious, inspiring even the most land-locked of readers to dip their toe into the water.

'This is a book that turns out to be about everything in life that cannot be calculated... The nicest thing about this book is its unfussy evangelism. Its intention is that we leap in too. It sets a remarkable example.' - The Guardian