Swimming Lessons
  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241252161
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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The new novel from the author of the Richard & Judy Book Club Pick Our Endless Numbered Days

Twelve years ago Flora's mother Ingrid disappeared, vanishing from a Dorset beach, presumed drowned. Everyone - especially her sister and father Gil - believes Ingrid is long dead. Everyone, except Flora. So when she hears that her father has had an accident, and is insisting that he saw his wife, Floral rushes home.

But the answers she seeks are nowhere to be found - only further questions.

Who did Flora’s father actually see that day? Why is his house filled with towering piles of books? And might the letters hidden within them hold the truth behind her parents’ extraordinary marriage?
  • Published: 30 January 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241252161
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
Categories:

About the author

Claire Fuller

Claire Fuller was born in Oxfordshire, England, in 1967. She gained a degree in sculpture from Winchester School of Art, but went on to have a long career in marketing and didn't start writing until she was forty. She has an MA in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Winchester and lives in Hampshire with her husband and two children. She is also an artist and sculptor and has had several short stories published. Our Endless Numbered Days is her first novel.

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The Memory of Animals
Unsettled Ground
Bitter Orange
Our Endless Numbered Days
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Praise for Swimming Lessons

Claire Fuller has captured love in its fullest form, nursed on betrayal and regret and guilt . . . Swimming Lessons is so smoothly, beautifully written, and the human failures here are heartbreaking.

David Vann

Bewitching and page-turning . . . an extraordinarily smart and satisfying read.

Paula McLain, author of The Paris Wife

A compelling portrait of a complicated, unconventional marriage, and of flawed humanity, with all its secrets, silences and deceits. Excellent.

Mail on Sunday

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

It's the sharp eye for detail, sometimes bizarre, that makes her writing stand out . . . A story suffused with the poignancy of miscommunication between people who love each other, of the things we can never really know.

Guardian

With Swimming Lessons, Fuller confirms herself as a writer of emotional depth, technical skill and sensitive plotting . . . What Fuller evokes beautifully are the complicated dynamics between fathers and daughters, sisters, lovers, friends

Observer

A deeply moving read, with a mystery that keeps you turning pages

Oprah.com

Evocative, immersive

Sarah Vaughan, author of Anatomy of a Scandal
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