Swimming Lessons

by Claire Fuller

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The second novel from the author of Our Endless Numbered Days, which won the 2015 Desmond Elliott Prize and was a 2016 Richard and Judy Book Club Pick.

'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


'Gil Coleman looked down from the window and saw his dead wife standing on the pavement below.'

Gil's wife, Ingrid, has been missing, presumed drowned, for twelve years.

A possible sighting brings their children, Nan and Flora, home. Together they begin to confront the mystery of their mother. Is Ingrid dead? Or did she leave? And do the letters hidden within Gil's books hold the answer to the truth behind his marriage, a truth hidden from everyone including his own children?
  • ISBN10 1941040934
  • ISBN13 9781941040935
  • Publish Date 9 January 2018 (first published 26 January 2017)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Tin House Books
  • Format Paperback (US Trade)
  • Pages 354
  • Language English