The Swimmers

The SwimmersNATIONAL BESTSELLER CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE WINNER From the award winning author of The Buddha in the Attic and When the Emperor Was Divine comes a novel that "starts as a catalogue of spoken and unspoken rules for swimmers at an aquatic center but unfolds into a powerful story of a mothers dementia and her daughters love" (The Washington Post). The swimmers are unknown to one another except through their private routines (slow lane, medium

But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright

or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend

Yet as his career begins to flourish

sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations

the irreverent

Emma runs into an old friend

For beneath the dazzle of Soho’s gaiety

Can the two make a real go of things…or has Charlie’s secret doomed them before they could start

Room is home to Jack

” —Elin Hilderbrand

but others are snide

Bill Bryson decided to reacquaint himself with his native country by walking the 2