![]() ![]() Read more 'A stealthily devastating book. In this novel, home is elusive, safety is unlikely, and the reader closes the book both satisfied and unnerved.' The Guardian 'Deborah Levy has made something strange and new. Witty and poignant, its pages melt away like an unsettling yet familiar dream.' Sunday Times 'Swimming Home is as sharp as a wasp sting. Why is she there? What does she want from them all? And why does Joe's enigmatic wife allow her to remain? Profound and thrilling, Swimming Home reveals how the most devastating secrets are the ones we keep from ourselves. 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. ![]() As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. Selected for the 2012 Man Booker Prize shortlist. 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. 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. ![]()
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