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Synopsis
***SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2018***
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.
'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?
'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
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Review
An Amazon Best Book of February 2017: A famous elderly author looks out the window of a bookstore and thinks he sees his deceased wife. Upset by this event, he takes a near-fatal tumble and winds up in the hospital. Flora, his youngest daughter, returns home to help care for him—shortly thereafter, letters from her mother will be discovered hidden inside the books of her father’s prized library. Thus begin two plotlines, as Flora and her sister care for their father, and as their mother’s letters lay out her side of the marriage—starting with their first meeting when she was a student and he was a professor. Is their mother dead now, or did she run away? And what other secrets are hidden inside the letters? Well-paced and finely detailed, Swimming Lessons is a mystery about an uncoiling family that will keep you turning pages and cause your loyalties to ebb and flow like a tide. --Chris Schluep, The Amazon Book Review
About the Author
Claire Fuller's debut novel, Our Endless Numbered Days, won the Desmond Elliott Prize in the UK, was a finalist in the ABA (American Booksellers Association) 2016 Indies Best Books Award, and was selected by Powells as an indiespensible book.
Her second novel, Swimming Lessons, will be published in February 2017.
Claire lives in Winchester, England, with her husband and has two grown-up children.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. FROM THE COSTA AWARD-WINNING, WOMEN?S PRIZE-SHORTLISTED AUTHOR OF UNSETTLED GROUNDTwelve 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? ?Thrilling and transporting? Sunday Times?An eloquent tale of squandered love and seething secrets? Sunday Express?A compelling portrait of a complicated, unconventional marriage, and of flawed humanity, with all its secrets, silences and deceits. Excellent? Mail on Sunday?A beautifully told story of motherhood, marriage, and infidelity? Good Housekeeping. Seller Inventory # CIN0241976375VG
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