`The Swimmer’ is a gripping, captivating novel about love, loss and what home really means.
Forty-three year old Ria is used to being alone. As a child, her life changed forever with the death of her beloved father and since then, she has struggled to find love.That is, until she discovers the swimmer.
Ben is a young illegal immigrant from Sri Lanka who has arrived in Norfolk via Moscow. Awaiting a decision from the Home Office on his asylum application, he is discovered by Ria as he takes a daily swim in the river close to her house. He is twenty years her junior and theirs is an unconventional but deeply moving romance, defying both boundaries and cultures – and the xenophobic residents of Orford. That is, until tragedy occurs.
- ISBN13 9780007351978
- Publish Date 29 April 2010
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
- Imprint William Collins
- Format eBook (EPUB)
- Pages 400
- Language English
- URL http://harpercollins.co.uk