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Swimming Home

Swimming Home

Deborah Levy

2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED. Swimming Home subverts expectations. 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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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.

Product Description

Title - Swimming Home

Edition -

Author - Deborah Levy

ISBN 13 - 9781908276025

Imprint - And Other Stories

Publisher - And Other Stories

Date Published - 06/10/2011

Prize -

No. of pages - 165

Binding Type - Paperback

Dimensions - 129 x 198 x mm

Weight - 266 g

Languages - English