![]() ![]() She is Kitty Finch: a self-proclaimed botanist with green-painted fingernails, walking naked out of the water and into the heart of their holiday. As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the swimming pool. "Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2012" - cover. With its deep psychology, biting humour and deceptively light surface, it wears its darkness lightly In this book, the wildness and the danger are all the more powerful for resting just beneath the surface. Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and selected as a New York Times Notable Book, Swimming Home is a sexy psychological thriller from a highly acclaimed writer.Poet Joe and his war-correspondent wife Isabel arrive with their daughter and another couple to a rented villa in the south of France to discover a body floating face down in the swimming pool. ![]() Swimming Home represents a new direction for a major writer. Deborah Levy's writing combines linguistic virtuosity, technical brilliance and a strong sense of what it means to be alive. Set in a summer villa, the story is tautly structured, taking place over a single week in which a group of beautiful, flawed tourists in the French Riviera come loose at the seams. Swimming Home is a novel by British writer Deborah Levy, published in 2011. Swimming Home is a subversive page-turner, a merciless gaze at the insidious harm that depression can have on apparently stable, well-turned-out people. ![]()
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