Swimming Home

A Novel

Fiction & Literature, Historical, Literary
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Author: Mary-Rose MacColl ISBN: 9781101993507
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group Publication: June 20, 2017
Imprint: Penguin Books Language: English
Author: Mary-Rose MacColl
ISBN: 9781101993507
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication: June 20, 2017
Imprint: Penguin Books
Language: English

**From the author of the international bestseller *In Falling Snow. *In 1925, a young woman swimmer will defy the odds to swim the English Channel—a chance to make history. **

London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her.
 
Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did.  Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her.

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**From the author of the international bestseller *In Falling Snow. *In 1925, a young woman swimmer will defy the odds to swim the English Channel—a chance to make history. **

London 1925: Fifteen-year-old Catherine Quick longs to feel once more the warm waters of her home, to strike out into the ocean off the Torres Strait Islands in Australia and swim, as she’s done since she was a child. But now, orphaned and living with her aunt Louisa in London, Catherine feels that everything she values has been stripped away from her.
 
Louisa, a London surgeon who fought boldly for equality for women, holds strict views on the behavior of her young niece. She wants Catherine to pursue an education, just as she herself did.  Catherine is rebellious, and Louisa finds it difficult to block painful memories from her past. It takes the enigmatic American banker Manfred Lear Black to convince Louisa to bring Catherine to New York where Catherine can train to become the first woman to swim the English Channel. And finally, Louisa begins to listen to what her own heart tells her.

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