Swimming Lessons

Hardback Published on: 26/01/2017
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Synopsis

The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.

'Thrilling, transporting, delicately realised and held together by a sophisticated sense of suspense ... more than matches the power of Fuller's debut ... Powerful, pleasing and pleasurable.' Sunday Times

'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.'

Gil's wife, Ingrid, has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years.

A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?

Publisher information

  • Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
  • ISBN: 9780241252154
  • Number of pages: 304
  • Dimensions: 222 x 144 x 29 mm
  • Weight: 444g

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Swimming Lessons
Beautiful and often times heartbreaking.
Swimming Lessons is a character-driven novel about a family, a love, a marriage, and how hope can be the worst thing sometimes. Here, the hope of Gil Colem... READ MORE
Kirsty Halliwell
Swimming Lessons
Swimming Lessons is a bewitching and original story
I was so impressed by Claire Fuller's debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days. I read it pre-publication and I was delighted when it went on to be such a hu... READ MORE
Anne Cater
Swimming Lessons
Not Waving But Drowning
'Swimming Lessons' is the second novel from the award winning Claire Fuller and concerns the deceits and concealments that families deal in, much to everyo... READ MORE
BenjaminPXR5
Swimming Lessons
A marriage Revealed in Letters.
Ingrid has been missing for 12 years. Her husband Gil and daughters Nan and Flora have no idea what happened to her. they have hoped for 12 years that the ... READ MORE
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