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Swimming Home

Swimming Home

by Mary-Rose MacColl
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/03/2019

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Winner, People's Choice Award, Queensland Literary Awards

In London in the mid-1920s, a young Australian and her aunt are each on a journey of self-discovery -- one by attempting to swim the English Channel the other to rediscover the woman she used to be. From the bestselling author of In Falling Snow.

It's 1925 and fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to swim once more in the warm waters of her tropical island home. But in London, where she now lives with her aunt Louisa, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away.

Louisa, a busy, confident London surgeon, holds definite views on the behaviour of her young niece, but since Catherine's arrival Louisa's every step seems to be wrong. Louisa is troubled by painful memories from her past.

It takes the influence of enigmatic American banker to convince Louisa to come to New York to join the first women in the world to swim the English Channel. It is here, unexpectedly, that Louisa can finally listen to what her own heart tells her.

ISBN:
9781760295028
9781760295028
Category:
Contemporary fiction
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-03-2019
Publisher:
ALLEN & UNWIN
Country of origin:
Australia
Pages:
400
Dimensions (mm):
198x128mm
Weight:
0.34kg

'A bittersweet, touching novel that ends with an uplifting element of hope.' Monique Mulligan

'Captivating, highly recommended' The Age

'MacColl succeeds in bringing all the various places to life . . . A highly engaging read.' Historical Novel Society

Mary-Rose MacColl

Mary-Rose MacColl's first novel, No Safe Place, was runner-up in the 1995 The Australian/Vogel's Literary award and her first non-fiction book, The Birth Wars, was a finalist in the 2009 Walkley Awards.

Her international bestselling In Falling Snow was published to great acclaim in 2012. Her fifth novel, Swimming Home, won The Courier-Mail 2016 People's Choice Queensland book of the Year Award.

Mary-Rose lives in Brisbane, Australia with her husband and son.

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