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  • Published: 19 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405919890
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

The Swimming Pool

From the author of ITV’s Our House starring Martin Compston and Tuppence Middleton





The thrilling new novel from bestselling author Louise Candlish

In the heady swelter of a suburban summer, the Elm Hill lido opens.

For teacher Natalie Steele, the school holidays are always spent with her husband Ed and daughter Molly. But not this year.

Despite Molly's extreme phobia of water, Natalie is drawn to the lido and its dazzling social scene, led by glamorous Lara Channing. Soon she's spending long days with Lara at the pool and intimate evenings at her home. Real life begins to feel very far away.

But is the new friendship everything it seems? Or, without realising, has Natalie been swept dangerously out of her depth?

  • Published: 19 September 2016
  • ISBN: 9781405919890
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 400

About the author

Louise Candlish

Since graduating from University College London, Louise Candlish has had various jobs in publishing and journalism, most recently working as a copywriter for a new media agency. She left her job to spend time in Italy, where she wrote Prickly Heat, and now lives in London with her partner and young daughter. Her website address is www.louisecandlish.co.uk

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Praise for The Swimming Pool

Exquisitely written and addictively dark, The Swimming Pool is sheer perfection

Clare Mackintosh

A clever, claustrophobic thriller

Fabulous Magazine

A compulsive psychological thriller that will give you the shivers

Sunday Mirror

Unapologetically dark, deliciously descriptive and heavy with that irresistible sense of foreboding, this is a novel that redefines the term 'unputdownable'

Heat

Tautly plotted and claustrophobic - a psychological drama with edge

Good Housekeeping

Readers will delight in the raw honesty with which Candlish writes about being a middle-aged woman in turmoil

Daily Mail

This story will keep you hooked with unexpected twists and turns until the end, when secrets and lies are exposed

Candis

Gripping from start to finish, it wrapped itself around me and swept me along in its wake. I loved it and simply did not want it to end

Rosanna Ley

Clever, atmospheric and ridiculously addictive

Kate Riordan

As languidly seductive as summer itself, this is a tense, unsettling tale about the secrets and lies submerged beneath the smooth surface of a leafy London neighbourhood lido. Bravo, Louise Candlish!

Tammy Cohen

The Swimming Pool is a slow-burning and thought-provoking read, and the last few gripping pages had me immediately reaching for the beginning

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Praise for Louise Candlish

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A master of her craft

Rosamund Lupton

A thriller novel meets soap opera with hints of Rear Window . . . addictive and fun . . . it will keep you guessing until the end

Stylist

Absorbing, perceptive and gripping

Daily Mail

Louise Candlish's stories don't shy away from life's more painful and emotional moments

Glamour

Tense, twisty and completely addictive, will keep you guessing right until the end

Good Housekeeping

Louise Candlish excels in looking at the darker side of relationships, she discovers thoughts and feelings that are recognisable but at the same time feel dangerously untouched

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