Swimming Home
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0749020547
ISBN-13
9780749020545
Publisher
Allison & Busby
Imprint
Allison & Busby
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 19th, 2017
Print length
384 Pages
Weight
260 grams
Dimensions
13.00 x 19.80 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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1925. Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to swim in the warm waters of her Australian home as she's always done. Her aunt Louisa wants her to pursue an education instead. A chance encounter leads both women to New York where Catherine can prove her worth and Louisa can come to an understanding with her niece and herself.
1925. Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to strike out into the warm waters of her Australian home just as she''s done since she was a tiny child. But now living in London with her aunt Louisa, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away.Louisa, a busy surgeon who fought boldly for women''s equality, wants Catherine to pursue an education to ensure her future freedom. Since Catherine arrived, however, Louisa can''t put a foot right and she is finding it harder to block painful memories from her past.A chance encounter leads both women to New York where Catherine can test her mettle against the first women in the world to swim the English Channel, and where Louisa can come to an understanding with her niece and with herself.
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